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.)
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“The sea
Severs not only lands but also selves.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)