Attempt

Famous quotes containing the word attempt:

“The meeting, in spite of my attempt to decline it, appointed me one of the delegates, so that in getting Baker the nomination, I shall be “fixed” a good deal like a fellow who is made groomsman to the man what has cut him out, and is marrying his own dear “gal.””
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature’s aid with intellect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)