Famous quotes containing the words variable, universal and/or life:
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“It is remarkable what a value is still put upon wood even in this age and in this new country, a value more permanent and universal than that of gold. After all our discoveries and inventions no man will go by a pile of wood. It is as precious to us as it was to our Saxon and Norman ancestors. If they made their bows of it, we make our gun-stocks of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When this ring
Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
Related Subjects
Related Phrases
Related Words