Mountain Rifle

Famous quotes containing the words mountain and/or rifle:

“One who only sits idle and eats can exhaust a mountain of wealth.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)