Shrinking Man

Famous quotes containing the words shrinking and/or man:

““There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

““Do you know what a pessimist is?” “A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates himself for it.””
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)