Metre Rifle Prone

Famous quotes containing the words rifle and/or prone:

“Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp’s rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,—a Sharp’s rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)