Narrow

Famous quotes containing the word narrow:

“His virtues walked their narrow round,
Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
And sure the Eternal Master found
The single talent well employed.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
—Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 7:14.

From the Sermon on the Mount.