Lowly

Famous quotes containing the word lowly:

“From the lowly perspective of a dog’s eyes, everyone looks short.”
—Chinese proverb.

“A gentleman does not begrudge a lowly person’s trespasses.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)