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)

“All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)