Famous quotes containing the word met:
“My thoughts: They are like persons met upon a journey—I think them very agreeable at first, but soon find, as a rule, that I am tired of them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)