Long Bones

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or bones:

“A wife’s long tongue is the stairway by which misfortunes ascend into the house.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I do not believe in erecting statues to those who still live in our hearts, whose bones have not yet crumbled in the earth around us, but I would rather see the statue of Captain Brown in the Massachusetts State-House yard than that of any other man whom I know. I rejoice that I live in this age, that I am his contemporary.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)