Famous quotes containing the word consists:
“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing itnamely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“Sir Toby Belch. Does not our life consist of the four elements?
Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Faith, so they say, but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking.
Sir Toby Belch. Thourt a scholar; therefore let us eat and drink.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)