Famous quotes containing the words universal and/or deluge:
“The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.”
—Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautréamont (1846–1870)
“Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,—shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter accept as special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)