Shaw Appeared

Famous quotes containing the words shaw and/or appeared:

    Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    But before the extremity of the Cape had completely sunk, it appeared like a filmy sliver of land lying flat on the ocean, and later still a mere reflection of a sand-bar on the haze above. Its name suggests a homely truth, but it would be more poetic if it described the impression which it makes on the beholder.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)