Famous quotes containing the words david and/or ben:
“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For of fortunes sharp adversitee
The worst kynde of infortune is this,
A man to han ben in prosperitee,
And it remembren, whan it passed is.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)