Case

Famous quotes containing the word case:

“True and false are attributes of speech not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither truth nor falsehood. Error there may be, as when we expect that which shall not be; or suspect what has not been: but in neither case can a man be charged with untruth.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)

“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

“In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)