| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. |
| Alexander Pope | Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. |
| Edmund Hillary | Well, we knocked the bastard off! |
| Francois Rabelais | I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus. |
| George Farquhar | Over the hills, and over the main, To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain; The Queen commands, and we'll obey, Over the hills and far away. |
| George Leigh Mallory | Because it's there. |
| George Leigh Mallory | Going to the mountains is going home. |
| John Gay | Over the hills and far away. |
| John Ruskin | Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery. |
| Old Song | Over the hills and o'er the main, To Flanders, Portugal and Spain, Queen Anne commands and we'll obey, Over the hills and far away. |
| Ovidius Naso | Then the Omnipotent Father with his thunder made Olympus tremble, and from Ossa hurled Pelion. |
| Sir Henry Ellis | To make a mountain of a mole-hill. |
| Thomas Campbell | Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky. |
| Thomas Campbell | 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. |
| Vergil | To pile Ossa upon Pelion. |
| William Ernest Henley | What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend, With love that cannot brook delay, To rise and follow the ways that wend Over the hills and far away. |
| Horatius Flaccus | What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor, a ridiculous mouse will be born. |
| Horatius Flaccus | To pile Pelion upon Olympus. |
| Homer | Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood, On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood. |
| James Russell Lowell | Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. |
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