Famous quotes containing the words standard, consists and/or solely:
“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
“For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living. The whole of my winters, as well as most of my summers, I had free and clear for study.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)