Famous quotes containing the words superior, venus and/or vanishes:
“To have more virtues than talents is to be a superior person; to have more talents than virtues is to be an inferior one.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Yet have I fierce affections, and think
What Venus did with Mars.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)