Famous quotes containing the words function and/or returns:
“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)