Famous quotes containing the words height and/or measures:
“The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)