Famous quotes containing the words greater, polish and/or lands:
“There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers’—”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)
“I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least set my lands in order?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)