Famous quotes containing the word dumb:
“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. Hell be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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