Dwarf Composed Chiefly

Famous quotes containing the words dwarf, composed and/or chiefly:

    A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size—take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

    I was not long since in a company where I wot not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true account, composed of a hundred and odd several ingredients; whereat we laughed very heartily, and made ourselves good sport; for what rock so hard were able to resist the shock or withstand the force of so thick and numerous a battery?
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    Wonder at all he meets,
    Wonderer chiefly at himself,—
    Who can tell him what he is?
    Or how meet in human elf
    Coming and past eternities?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)