Consists

Famous quotes containing the word consists:

“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)

“America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)