Standard Boiling Point

Famous quotes containing the words standard, boiling and/or point:

    “Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country’s champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)