Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:
“There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)