Principal Vanishing Point

Famous quotes containing the words principal, vanishing and/or point:

    “As a Tax-Paying Citizen of the United States I am entitled to a voice in Governmental affairs.... Having paid this unlawful Tax under written Protest for forty years, I am entitled to receive from the Treasury of “Uncle Sam” the full amount of both Principal and Interest.”
    —Susan Pecker Fowler (1823–1911)

    “The vanishing volatile froth of the present which any shadow will alter, any thought blow away, any event annihilate, is every moment converted into the Adamantine Record of the past.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.”
    —Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)