Famous quotes containing the words long and/or cross:
“See, Antony, that revels long a-nights,
Is notwithstanding up.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)