Famous quotes containing the words wide world, big, wide and/or world:
“If in this wide world, teeming with abundant supplies for human want, to thousands of wretched creatures no choice is open, save between starvation and sin, may we not justly say that there is something utterly wrong in the system that permits such things to be?”
—Tennessee Claflin (1846–1923)
“However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.”
—Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711)
“This mortal air is one wide pestilence, that kills us all at last.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky,—
No higher than the soul is high.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)