Theoretical Plates

Famous quotes containing the words theoretical and/or plates:

“The desire to serve the common good must without fail be a requisite of the soul, a necessity for personal happiness; if it issues not from there, but from theoretical or other considerations, it is not at all the same thing.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“Realms and islands were
As plates dropped from his pocket.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)