Famous quotes containing the words short and/or stem:
“Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)