Expedient Means

Famous quotes containing the words expedient and/or means:

“It is expedient there should be gods, and as it is expedient,
let us deem that gods exist.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)