Famous quotes containing the words set and/or top:
“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”
—Aeschylus (525456 B.C.)
“There is Lowell, whos striving Parnassus to climb
With a whole bale of isms tied together with rhyme,
He might get on alone, spite of brambles and boulders,
But he cant with that bundle he has on his shoulders,
The top of the hill he will neer come nigh reaching
Till he learns the distinction twixt singing and preaching;”
—James Russell Lowell (18191891)