Famous quotes containing the words collected and/or short:
“The offender never pardons.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)
“We had the fairest view of Ktaadn.... The summit ... had a singularly flat, table-land appearance, like a short highway, where a demigod might be let down to take a turn or two in an afternoon, to settle his dinner.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)