Line Passing

Famous quotes containing the words line and/or passing:

“When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)