Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Grandfather sang it under the gallows:
“Hear, gentlemen, ladies, and all mankind:
Money is good and a girl might be better,
But good strong blows are delights to the mind.”
There, standing on the cart,
He sang it from his heart.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)