Points Penalty Meant

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

    “PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.”
    —Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    “By measure. It was word and note,
    The wind the wind had meant to be
    A little through the lips and throat.
    The aim was song the wind could see.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)