Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:
“Wi joy unfeigned brothers and sisters meet,
An each for others 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 (17591796)
“Thats the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishnesssomeone else always suffers for them.”
—Alfred Sutro (18631933)
“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 (18031882)
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