Famous quotes containing the words pot, limit and/or omaha:
“Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Greatness collapses of itself: such limit the gods have set to the growth of prosperous states.”
—Marcus Annaeus Lucan (39–65)
“The first dead man on Omaha Beach must be a sailor!”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)