Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:
“Its my feeling that God lends you your children until theyre about eighteen years old. If you havent made your points with them by then, its too late.”
—Betty Ford (b. 1918)
“Plato says that the punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is, to live under the government of worse men; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors, as the penalty of abstaining to speak,that they shall hear worse orators than themselves.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“He had previously complimented me on my paddling, saying that I paddled just like anybody, giving me an Indian name which meant great paddler.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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