Famous quotes containing the words mortal and/or peril:
“Every man beholds his human condition with a degree of melancholy. As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so man, imprisoned in mortal life, lies open to the mercy of coming events.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“For I’ve been born and I’ve been wed—
All of man’s peril comes of bed.”
—C.H. (Charles Henry)