Defining Empty Sums

Famous quotes containing the words defining, empty and/or sums:

    “The industrial world would be a more peaceful place if workers were called in as collaborators in the process of establishing standards and defining shop practices, matters which surely affect their interests and well-being fully as much as they affect those of employers and consumers.”
    —Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

    “Friendship is but a name, faith is an empty name. Alas,
    it is not safe to praise to a friend the object of your love;
    as soon as he believes your praises, he slips into your place.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    “At Timon’s villalet us pass a day,
    Where all cry out,What sums are thrown away!’”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)