Famous quotes containing the words top, country and/or record:
“Oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and the higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Pericles. He asks of you that never used to beg.
1st Fisherman. No, friend, cannot you beg? Here’s them in our country of Greece gets more with begging than we can do with working.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The house seems heavier
Now that they have gone away.
In fact it emptied in record time.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)