Famous quotes containing the words chain and/or length:
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)