Famous quotes containing the words general and/or david:
“Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)