Famous quotes containing the words arts and/or degree:
“Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“There is always a degree of ridicule that attends a disappointment, though often very unjustly, if the expectation was reasonably grounded; however, it is certainly most prudent not to communicate, prematurely, one’s hopes or one’s fears.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)