Points Penalty Meant

Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:

    “Wi’ joy unfeigned brothers and sisters meet,
    An’ each for other’s weelfare kindly spiers:
    The social hours, swift-winged, unnoticed fleet;
    Each tells the uncos that he sees or hears;
    The parents, partial, eye their hopeful years;
    Anticipation forward points the view:”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “That’s the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness—someone else always suffers for them.”
    —Alfred Sutro (1863–1933)

    “When I have seen fine statues, and afterwards enter a public assembly, I understand well what he meant who said, “When I have been reading Homer, all men look like giants.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)