Superior Venus Vanishes

Famous quotes containing the words superior, venus and/or vanishes:

    A superior person brings out the best in others.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.

    And Venus to the Loves around
    Remarked how ill we all dissembled.
    Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounce it true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)