Strain Due Applied

Famous quotes containing the words strain, due and/or applied:

    “You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:24.

    “Like to the Pontic Sea,
    Whose icy current and compulsive course
    Ne’er knows retiring ebb, but keeps due on
    To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
    Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace
    Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb to humble love,
    Till that a capable and wide revenge
    Swallow them up.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)