Lift Span

Famous quotes containing the words lift and/or span:

    “Oh, lift me from the grass!
    I die! I faint! I fail!
    Let thy love in kisses rain
    On my lips and eyelids pale.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “Life’s brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
    —Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)