Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
“BOSWELL ... Is not the fear of death natural to man? JOHNSON. So much so, Sir, that the whole of life is but keeping away the thought of it.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“Commuterone who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)