Famous quotes containing the words acute and/or pain:
“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp’s acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)