Famous quotes containing the word lightest:
“When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years’ life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“The poor tread lightest on the earth. The higher our income, the more resources we control and the more havoc we wreak.”
—Paul Harrison (b. 1936)
“As on the highroad he who walks lightest walks with most ease, so on the journey of
life more happiness comes from lightening the needs by poverty than from panting under a
burden of wealth.”
—Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)