Famous quotes containing the word earnest:
“The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”
—Georg Büchner (1813–1837)