Famous quotes containing the words mare, statistics, domestic and/or leagues:
“All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““In great misfortunes,” he told himself, “people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love—if once one has ever fallen in.”
Falling out, for him, seemed to mean falling out of all domestic and social relations, out of his place in the human family, indeed.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Good news about someone never gets past the door, but bad news will travel a thousand leagues away.”
—Chinese proverb.