Poor High Altitude

Famous quotes containing the words poor, high and/or altitude:

“You see me here, you gods, a poor old man,
As full of grief as age, wretched in both.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)