Famous quotes containing the words set and/or amount:
“If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then youll be so weak you wont be able to believe the simplest true things.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“The amount of it is, if a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)