Tide Height Limit

Famous quotes containing the words tide, height and/or limit:

“The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

“Today one does not hear much about him.... The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)