Dumb

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. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“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 (1809–1865)

“Beware. Beware.
There is a tenderness.
There is a love
for this dumb traveler
waiting in his pink covers.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)