Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:
“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“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.)
“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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