Famous quotes containing the words points, penalty and/or meant:
“He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“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.)
“Owning a wife with him meant owning her.
She wasnt anybody elses business,
Either to praise her or so much as name her,
And hed thank people not to think of her.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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