Knew

Famous quotes containing the word knew:

    ... what a strange time it was! Who knew his neighbor? Who was a traitor and who a patriot? The hero of to-day was the suspected of to-morrow.... There were traitors in the most secret council-chambers. Generals, senators, and secretaries looked at each other with suspicious eyes.... It is a great wonder that the city of Washington was not betrayed, burned, destroyed a half-dozen times.
    M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    It would be no reproach to a philosopher, that he knew the future better than the past, or even than the present. It is better worth knowing.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I never knew so young a body with so old a head.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)