Famous quotes containing the word rushes:
“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one’s own inner self.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“The one who rushes ahead hastily will probably fall behind.”
—Chinese proverb.
Mencius.
“Your wits can’t thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You’ve no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)