Famous quotes containing the word fearful:
“No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“A fearful man is always hearing things.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried closest to our hearts.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)