Measure

Famous quotes containing the word measure:

“The soul is no longer honored as it once was, but it still keeps appetite from being the measure of all things.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- lived or local, but abode by real and abiding traits.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“REASON, is half of it, SENSE; and the measure of heaven itself is but the measure of our present appetites and concoctions.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)