Famous quotes containing the words owen and/or wrote:
“Soldiers may grow a soul when turned to fronds,
But here the thing’s best left at home with friends.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)