Famous quotes containing the words big and/or death:
“We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“There is something antique, even, in his style of treating his subject, reminding us that Heroes and Demi-gods, Fates and Furies, still exist; the common man is nothing to him, but after death the hero is apotheosized and has a place in heaven, as in the religion of the Greeks.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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