World Standard

Famous quotes containing the words world and/or standard:

    The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; ‘t is all toy figures in a toy house.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
    Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)