Altogether

Famous quotes containing the word altogether:

“Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life.”
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

“I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)