Stone Inscription

Famous quotes containing the words stone and/or inscription:

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Beneath every stone there lurks a scorpion.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)