Heap

Famous quotes containing the word heap:

“But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)