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–?)

    “In vain we lavish out our lives,
    To gather empty wind;
    The choicest blessings earth can yield
    Will starve a hungry mind.”
    —Isaac Watts (1674–1748)

    “If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.”
    —Jewish proverb, quoted in Claud Cockburn, Cockburn Sums Up, epigraph (1981)