Famous quotes containing the words united, kingdom and/or average:
“We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for the salvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Ill give my jewels for a set of beads,
My gorgeous palace for a hermitage,
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And my large kingdom for a little grave,
A little, little grave, an obscure grave.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The average American is a good sport, plays by the rules. But this war is no game. And no secret agent is a hero or a good sportthat is, no living agent.”
—John Monks, Jr., U.S. screenwriter, Sy Bartlett, and Henry Hathaway. Robert Sharkey (James Cagney)