World Combined Events

Famous quotes containing the words world, combined and/or events:

    “There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.”
    —J.M. (James Matthew)

    “Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
    And each particular hair to stand on end,
    Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)