Famous quotes containing the words jump and/or repeatedly:
“If it were done when tis done, then twere well
It were done quickly. If th assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease successthat but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all!here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
Wed jump the life to come.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“It is not easy to make our lives respectable by any course of activity. We must repeatedly withdraw into our shells of thought, like the tortoise, somewhat helplessly; yet there is more than philosophy in that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)