Famous quotes containing the words world and/or lines:
“The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)