Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or lengths:
“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“You’ll see certain Pythagoreans whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)