many quotes

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 20:15^16.

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many, to so few.

- Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
  On theBattle of Britain pilots. Speech, House of Commons, 20  Aug.

Done because we are too menny.

-Thomas Hardy
   The note left by  Jude's young son, who had hanged his siblings and himself.  Jude the Obscure, pt.6, ch.2.

   Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

- George Bernard Shaw
  Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: Democracy'.

   The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly: Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, stanza 52.

Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.

-Sophocles
Antigone, 332^3 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).