Famous quotes containing the words failure, mode and/or effects:
“Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government.”
—Ambrose Bierce (18421914)
“The character of the loggers admiration is betrayed by his very mode of expressing it.... He admires the log, the carcass or corpse, more than the tree.... What right have you to celebrate the virtues of the man you murdered?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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