Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or shift:
“We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“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)