Famous quotes containing the words length and/or words:
“He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practiced on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
At length I realize, he said,
The bitterness of Life!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.
The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.