Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or rifle:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)