Life Peers

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or peers:

    “Because of the unusual remoteness of Russia, and because of nostalgia’s remaining throughout one’s life an insane companion, with whose heartrending oddities one is accustomed to put up in public, I feel no embarrassment in confessing to the sentimental stab of attachment to my first book.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    “Live without envy, spend your peaceful years
    Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)