Fragment

Famous quotes containing the word fragment:

    “some little plan or chart,
    Some fragment from his dream of human life,
    Shaped by himself with newly-learned art;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “[I am] firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,—but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of life.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    “To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost—that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization—is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)