Famous quotes containing the words light and/or brown:
“When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south there is still light in the north.”
—Chinese proverb.
“What have Massachusetts and the North sent a few sane representatives to Congress for, of late years?... All their speeches put together and boiled down ... do not match for manly directness and force, and for simple truth, the few casual remarks of crazy John Brown on the floor of the Harper’s Ferry engine-house,—that man whom you are about to hang, to send to the other world, though not to represent you there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)