Famous quotes containing the words public and/or life:
“The Muse is mute when public men
Applaud a modern throne.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)