Fixed Mass

Famous quotes containing the words fixed and/or mass:

    “Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “When over Catholics the ocean rolls,
    They must wait several weeks before a mass
    Takes off one peck of purgatorial coals,
    Because, till people know what’s come to pass,
    They won’t lay out their money on the dead—
    It costs three francs for every mass that’s said.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)