Famous quotes containing the words single and/or syllable:
“As soon as we exceed average human goodness by even a single step, our actions arouse suspicion. Virtue stands steadily in the middle.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)