Human Wishes

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or wishes:

““To my thinking” boomed the Professor, begging the question as usual, “the greatest triumph of the human mind was the calculation of Neptune from the observed vagaries of the orbit of Uranus.”
“And yours,” said the P.B.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country’s wishes blest!”
—William Collins (1721–1759)