Famous quotes containing the words fixed, point and/or type:
“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (10643 B.C.)
“It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)
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