Race Course Road

Famous quotes containing the words race and/or road:

    “The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)