Famous quotes containing the words long, neck and/or point:
“He that fails in his endeavours after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“And graven with diamonds in letters plain
There is written her fair neck round about:
Noli me tangere for Caesars I am,
And wild for to hold though I seem tame.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)
“As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; theres no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the betterbut you keep working anyway.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
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