Famous quotes containing the words plan, tower and/or house:
“Solomon’s ... excess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,—he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives....
Wise—deluded man!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The tower nearest the water gets the moonlight first.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The ceaseless labor of your life is to build the house of death.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)