Variable Universal Life

Famous quotes containing the words variable, universal and/or life:

    “Walked forth to ease my pain
    Along the shore of silver streaming Thames,
    Whose rutty bank, the which his river hems,
    Was painted all with variable flowers,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.”
    —The Columbia Encyclopedia, Fifth Edition, the first sentence of the article on “life” (based on wording in the First Edition, 1935)

    “Poor vaunt of life indeed,
    Were man but formed to feed
    On joy, to solely seek and find and feast:”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)