Famous quotes containing the words merit, order and/or list:
“So that if you would form a just judgment of what is of infinite importance to you not to be misled in,namely, in what degree of real merit you stand ... call in religion and morality.Look,What is written in the law of God?How readest thou?Consult calm reason and the unchangeable obligations of justice and truth;Mwhat say they?”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“The order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of things.”
—Baruch (Benedict)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
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