Famous quotes containing the words ball and/or sets:
“When Adam delved and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman?”
—John Ball (hanged 1381)
“The vain man does not wish so much to be prominent as to feel himself prominent; he therefore disdains none of the expedients for self-deception and self-outwitting. It is not the opinion of others that he sets his heart on, but his opinion of their opinion.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)