Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or chamber:
“An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls,—the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot- box once a year, but on what kind of a man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)