Famous quotes containing the word proved:
“Let four captains
Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage,
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have proved most royally.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Ellie: Aren’t you going to give me a little credit?
Peter: What for?
Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Peter: Why didn’t you take off all your clothes. You could have stopped forty cars.
Ellie: Ooohh, I’ll remember that when we need forty cars.”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)
“I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child
than now in first seeing he had proved himself a man.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)