Famous quotes containing the words man and/or pages:
“Yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me—nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The oft-repeated Roman story is written in still legible characters in every quarter of the Old World, and but today, perchance, a new coin is dug up whose inscription repeats and confirms their fame. Some “Judæa Capta,” with a woman mourning under a palm tree, with silent argument and demonstration confirms the pages of history.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)