Famous quotes containing the words edward gibbon, gibbon, early and/or life:
“I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“...to many a mother’s heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother’s kiss.”
—J. Ellen Foster (1840–1910)
“The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama.... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.”
—Haniel Long (1888–1956)