Represent Parallel Notions

Famous quotes containing the words represent, parallel and/or notions:

    I rejoice that there are owls.... They represent the stark twilight and unsatisfied thoughts which all have.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    There isn’t a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    The herd of mankind can hardly be said to think; their notions are almost all adoptive; and, in general, I believe it is better that it should be so; as such common prejudices contribute more to order and quiet, than their own separate reasonings would do, uncultivated and unimproved as they are.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)