Heap

Famous quotes containing the word heap:

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

“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)

“Now they heap the funeral pyre,
And the torch of death they light;
Ah! ‘tis hard to die by fire!”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)