Famous quotes containing the words side and/or length:
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other.... Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practiced on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
At length I realize, he said,
The bitterness of Life!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)