Empty Element

Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or element:

“Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
Are empty trunks o’erflourished by the devil.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.”
—Rose Macaulay (1881–1958)