Greater Alarm

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or alarm:

“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)