Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“A sect or a party is an elegant incognito, devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Still grows the vivacious lilac a generation after the door and lintel and the sill are gone, unfolding its sweet-scented flowers each spring, to be plucked by the musing traveller; planted and tended once by children’s hands, in front-yard plots,—now standing by wall-sides in retired pastures, and giving place to new-rising forests;Mthe last of that stirp, sole survivor of that family.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)