Points Penalty Meant

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

“Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.”
—William Morris (1834–1896)