Line Serves

Famous quotes containing the words line and/or serves:

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.

    “One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life, and there is nothing better.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)