Subject Distance

Famous quotes containing the words subject and/or distance:

“Is not the king’s name twenty thousand names?
Arm, arm, my name! A puny subject strikes
At thy great glory.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, though in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)