Famous quotes containing the words air, america, wise, loan and/or controversy:
“An air lambent with adult enterprise ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.”
—Michael Malone (b. 1942)
“Death never takes the wise man by surprise,
He is always ready to go.”
—Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695)
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)