Passing Rate

Famous quotes containing the words passing and/or rate:

“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf—at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel—you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety—& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)