Famous quotes containing the words narrower and/or tread:
“Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He has no resolution, he shrinks from pain or labour in any of its shapes. His very attitude bespeaks this: he never straightens his knee joints, he stoops with his fat ill- shapen shoulders, and in walking he does not tread but shovel and slide.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)