Famous quotes containing the words horizontal, girth and/or measured:
“And yet out of eternity, a thread
separates itself on the blackness,
a horizontal thread
that fumes a little with pallor upon the dark.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
“It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage of society; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The increase in wisdom can be measured precisely by the decrease in bile.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
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