Famous quotes containing the words standard, consists and/or solely:
“A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)