Famous quotes containing the words greater, polish and/or lands:
“Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Use the stones of another hill to polish your own jade.”
—Chinese proverb.
“he was nothing to be won or lost.
All lands to him were Ithaca: love-tossed
He loathed to fraud, yet would not bed alone.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)