Famous quotes containing the words meagre, set and/or game:
“We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn’t a God.”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)
“Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)