Finite Measure

Famous quotes containing the words finite and/or measure:

“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)

“REASON, is half of it, SENSE; and the measure of heaven itself is but the measure of our present appetites and concoctions.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)