Tone Marks

Famous quotes containing the words tone and/or marks:

“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Judge—A law student who marks his own examination-papers.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)