Famous quotes containing the words word and/or length:
“Let your word be Yes, Yes’ or No, No’; anything more than this comes from the evil one.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 5:37.
“Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child’s outstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child’s innocence.”
—Christoph Meckel (20th century)