Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or world:
“Your love by ours we measure
Till we have lost our treasure,
But dying is a pleasure,
When living is a pain.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)