Main Span

Famous quotes containing the words main and/or span:

    “Men enter by force, drawn back like Jonah
    into their fleshy mothers.
    A woman is her mother.
    That’s the main thing.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Life’s brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
    —Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)