Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.”
—William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
“Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false impossible shore.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)