Famous quotes containing the words quiet and/or man:
“The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)