Life Peers

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or peers:

    “There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, because his peers did not exist.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)