Famous quotes containing the words tale and/or finished:
“Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments.”
—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)