Days High Altitude

Famous quotes containing the words days, high and/or altitude:

    She has not grown uncivil
    As narrow natures would
    And called the pleasures evil
    Happier days thought good....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    As a thinker and planner, the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts, she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.”
    Karl Marx (1818–1883)