Melting Point Increases

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

“He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

“... we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)