Prove

Famous quotes containing the word prove:

    Since I cannot prove a lover
    To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
    I am determinèd to prove a villain
    And hate the idle pleasures of these days.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    In an early spring
    We see th’appearing buds, which to prove fruit
    Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair
    That frosts will bite them.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)