Standard Diamond Interchange

Famous quotes containing the words standard, diamond and/or interchange:

    “Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don’t come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don’t have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.”
    —John Michael Hayes (b.1919)

    “What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)