Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or shift:
“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)