Sides

Famous quotes containing the word sides:

“I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,
And falls on th’ other.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A mountain chain determines many things for the statesman and philosopher. The improvements of civilization rather creep along its sides than cross its summit. How often is it a barrier to prejudice and fanaticism!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)