Famous quotes containing the words form, design and/or note:
“The world is not looking for servants,there are plenty of these,but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)
“Humility is often only the putting on of a submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride, which debases itself with a design of being exalted; and though this vice transform itself into a thousand several shapes, yet the disguise is never more effectual nor more capable of deceiving the world than when concealed under a form of humility.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (16131680)
“There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading ... may be given without first getting the authors permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.”
—Robert Benchley (18891945)