Famous quotes containing the words actual, mechanical and/or advantage:
“Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.”
—Francis, Sir Drake (1540–1596)