Extreme Long Shot

Famous quotes containing the words extreme, long and/or shot:

“As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)

“But this we know, the obstacle that checked
And tripped the body, shot the spirit on
Further than target ever showed or shone.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)