Gross State

Famous quotes containing the words gross and/or state:

“In the gross and scope of mine opinion,
This bodes some strange eruption to our state.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)