Consists

Famous quotes containing the word consists:

“Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, 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] (1835–1910)

“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)