Famous quotes containing the words standing and/or waves:
“Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.
RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”
“When infant Science makes a pleasant face
And waves again that hollow toy, the Race;”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)