Prove

Famous quotes containing the word prove:

    “Make me to see’t, or at the least so prove it
    That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
    To hang a doubt on.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It is a sort of ranger service. Arnold’s expedition is a daily experience with these settlers. They can prove that they were out at almost any time; and I think that all the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “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)