Famous quotes containing the words grand, chapter and/or meeting:
“It has been said that the immortality of the soul is a grand peut-ĂȘtreMbut still it is a grand one. Everybody clings to itthe stupidest, and dullest, and wickedest of human bipeds is still persuaded that he is immortal.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
—John Donne (c. 15721631)
“Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)