“High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.”
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) German composer and pianist
Notes on a postcard to Clara Schumann (12 September 1868)
“Dicko: The mountain was too high, the river too deep. Cabaret.”
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“3769. One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.”
Jack Vance book Showboat World
Source: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 12 (p. 132)
“Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.”
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Komal Nahta
“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Abigail Adams (1744–1818) 2nd First Lady of the United States (1797–1801)
Letter to John Adams (1774)
“The nation is ruined, but mountains and rivers remain.”
Du Fu (712–770) Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
"Spring View" (trans. Gary Snyder), written in 755.
Variant translation (by David Hinton): The nation falls into ruins; rivers and mountains continue.