Consists

Famous quotes containing the word consists:

    “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. Thou’rt a scholar; therefore let us eat and drink.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”
    —Thomas Paine (1737–1809)