Famous quotes containing the word one:
“It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“Come, my pretender, my fritter,
my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
Oh succulent one,
it is but one turn in the road
and I would be a cannibal!”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“It may be strangeyet who would change
Times course to slower speeding,
When one by one our friends have gone
And left our bosoms bleeding?”
—Thomas Campbell (17741844)
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