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)

“My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)