Famous quotes containing the words test, public and/or void:
“There is a parallel between the twos and the tens. Tens are trying to test their abilities again, sizing up and experimenting to discover how to fit in. They dont mean everything they do and say. They are just testing. . . . Take a good deal of your daughters behavior with a grain of salt. Try to handle the really outrageous as matter-of-factly as you would a mistake in grammar or spelling.”
—Stella Chess (20th century)
“Well of all things in the world, I dont suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public weddingmy stars!I should never be able to support it!”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cryd, nor sighs for chearful Ale;”
—John Phillips (16761709)