Famous quotes containing the words bird and/or base:
“They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (18151902)
“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
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