Famous quotes containing the words burnt and/or alive:
“So all were lost, which in the ship were found,
They in the sea being burnt, they in the burnt ship drown’d.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)