Famous quotes containing the words merit, order and/or list:
“Be thou the first true merit to befriend;
His praise is lost who stays till all commend.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
—George Orwell (19031950)
“All is possible,
Who so list believe;
Trust therefore first, and after preve,
As men wed ladies by license and leave,
All is possible.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?1542)
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