Capital

Famous quotes containing the word capital:

    “It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
    —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    “Oh, a capital ship for an ocean trip,
    Was the Walloping Window Blind;
    No gale that blew dismayed her crew
    Or troubled the captain’s mind.”
    —Charles Edward Carryl (1841–1920)

    “We make needless ado about capital punishment,—taking lives, when there is no life to take.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)