Famous quotes containing the words human and/or tongue:
“How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which it strives.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Ye could not know where lies a thing so fair,
No stone is there to show, no tongue to say,
What was; no dirge, except the hollow sea’s,
Mourns o’er the beauty of the Cyclades.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)