“I mark this day with a white stone.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
19 December 1863; he frequently used this or a similar phrase for especially notable days.
Diaries
“If a man’s deeds do not outlive him, of what value is a mark in stone?”
Source: World Without End (1995), Chapter 24 (p. 341)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "If a man’s deeds do not outlive him, of what value is a mark in stone?" by Sean Russell?
Sean Russell39
author 1952Related quotes
“Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“A thousand words can't
make the mark a single deed will leave.”
Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
Ikke tusend ord
sig prenter, som én gernings spor.
Manden, Act II
Brand (1866)
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Prince Otto
Prince Otto, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The wrinkles on his forehead are the marks which his mighty deeds have engraved.”
Pierre Corneille book Le Cid
Ses rides, sur son front, ont grave ses exploits.
Don Diego, act I, scene i.
Le Cid (1636)
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
