Famous quotes containing the words big, oak and/or flat:
“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (16941778)
“When the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o the world!
Crack natures moulds, all germens spill at once
That makes ingrateful man!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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