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)
“The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite
That ever I was born to set it right!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)