Famous quotes containing the words tale and/or finished:
“The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have finished my combat with the sun;
And my body, the old animal,
Knows nothing more.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)