Equal Footing

Famous quotes containing the words equal and/or footing:

“A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he may abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“As a tiger may lose its footing on soft ground, so people may be tripped up by sweet words.”
—Chinese proverb.