Axiom States

Famous quotes containing the words axiom and/or states:

“The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood.... For the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)