Famous quotes containing the words private, eye and/or short:
“No annual training or muster of soldiery, no celebration with its scarfs and banners, could import into the town a hundredth part of the annual splendor of our October. We have only to set the trees, or let them stand, and Nature will find the colored drapery,—flags of all her nations, some of whose private signals hardly the botanist can read,—while we walk under the triumphal arches of the elms.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 19:24.
“A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)