Evolving Standards

Famous quotes containing the words evolving and/or standards:

“... friendship ... is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

“As long as our people quote English standards they dwarf their own proportions.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)