Famous quotes containing the words high, combined and/or score:
“If I must choose which I would elevate
The people or the already lofty mountains,
Id elevate the already lofty mountains.
The only fault I find with old New Hampshire
Is that her mountains arent quite high enough.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)