Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or instance:
“Saint Peter sat by the celestial gate:
His keys were rusty, and the lock was dull,”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way we are strong, by borrowing the might of the elements. The forces of steam, gravity, galvanism, light, magnets, wind, fire, serve us day by day and cost us nothing.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)