Famous quotes containing the words shorter and/or poems:
“I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
—George Chapman c. 1559–1634, British dramatist, poet, translator. repr. In Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (1910)