Pointed

Famous quotes containing the word pointed:

“Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

“A hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits.”
—Charles Darwin (1809–1882)

“In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)