Famous quotes containing the word consists:
“The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thingand a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes goodbut to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.”
—William Pepperell Montague (18421910)
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