Famous quotes containing the words bite, mark and/or analysis:
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Snobs in pursuit of a mark are more shameless than the sluts of Sodom.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)