Famous quotes containing the words sand, point and/or school:
“But the twelve lie in the sand by the dry rock
Seeing nothingthe sand, the tree, rocks
Without numberand turn away the face
To the minds briefer and more desert place.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)