The Object

Famous quotes containing the word object:

    “To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one’s life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “My object all sublime I shall achieve in time—
    To let the punishment fit the crime— The punishment fit the crime; And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent
    A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)