Prove

Famous quotes containing the word prove:

“We stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I shall never forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, “I refute it thus.””
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Arguments too stale to mention
‘Gainst American invention
Most of all the mass production
Destined to prove our destruction.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)