Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“The mark of a true politician is that he is never at a loss for words because he is always half-expecting to be asked to make a speech.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)

“The sense of the world is short,—
Long and various the report,—
To love and be beloved.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)