Met

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)