Famous quotes containing the words current, account and/or surplus:
“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Principles aren’t of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)