Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:
“I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.”
—Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)
“The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)