Constant

Famous quotes containing the word constant:

    With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
    Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
    But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
    She’s constant only in inconstancy.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics.... Error is certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
    Louis Aragon (1897–1982)

    Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
    Eugene Field (1850–1895)