Meek

Famous quotes containing the word meek:

“Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderings, they nourish that fatal fire, and half-pay officers, as the priests of Mars, yet guard the temple, though no god be there.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)