Famous quotes containing the words natural, gas and/or demand:
“The dead being the majority it is a natural thing that we should have more friends among these than among the living.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
“one pale woman all alone,
The daylight kissing her wan hair,
Loitered beneath the gas lamps flare,
With lips of flame and heart of stone.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
“I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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