Famous quotes containing the word earnest:
“They have been foolish enough to put at the end of all this earnest the old joke of a diploma. Let every sheep keep but his own skin, I say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)