Famous quotes containing the words fix, rare and/or case:
“Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“What we need to know in any case is very simple.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)