Famous quotes containing the words stroke and/or side:
“If thou and nature can so gently part,
The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out to me on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)