Fantastic/examples

Famous quotes containing the words fantastic and/or examples:

“Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)