Melting Point Increases

Famous quotes containing the words melting, point and/or increases:

    Since to the awe of thy imperious wit
    Our troublesome language bends, made only fit
    With her tough thick-ribbed hoops to gird about
    Thy giant fancy, which had proved too stout
    For their soft melting phrases.
    Thomas Carew (1589–1639)

    Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attract our affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it....
    ——Endless is the Search of Truth!
    Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)