Famous quotes containing the words long and/or fall:
“Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher’s cleaver.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)