Famous quotes containing the words greater, polish and/or lands:
“I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
Communicated monthly, sit and stare
At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
Where a young man lands hatless from the air.”
—Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)