Famous quotes containing the word prove:
“[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue
Who says my hand a needle better fits,
A poets pen, all scorn, I should thus wrong;
For such despite they cast on female wits:
If what I do prove well, it wont advance,
Theyll say its stolen, or else it was by chance.”
—Anne Bradstreet (c. 16121672)
“If ever you prove false to one another, since I have taken such pain to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between be called to the worlds end after my name; call them all Pandars.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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