Famous quotes containing the words jack, couch and/or stadium:
“This is the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 1617)
“Where the bee sucks, there suck I,
In a cowslips bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bats back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now,
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)