Home › S › Shadows

Shadows: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.— BURKE — Speech at Bristol on Declining

the Poll. Thus shadow owes its birth to light.— GAY — The Persian, Sun, and Cloud. L. 10.

Follow a shadow, it still flies you; Seem to fly it, it will pursue.— BEN JONSON — Song. That Women are

but Men's Shadows. Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever? OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Lucile. Pt. II. Canto II. St.