Famous quotes containing the words land and/or border:
“What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That’s all that can be said about land.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)