Famous quotes containing the words positive and/or void:
“Blessed be the inventor of photography! I set him above even the inventor of chloroform! It has given more positive pleasure to poor suffering humanity than anything else that has cast up in my time or is like tothis art by which even the poor can possess themselves of tolerable likenesses of their absent dear ones. And mustnt it be acting favourably on the morality of the country?”
—Jane Welsh Carlyle (18011866)
“Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. What! he said, Must we void ourselves as we run? Use our time as best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)