Venus/observation

Famous quotes containing the words venus and/or observation:

    Yet have I fierce affections, and think
    What Venus did with Mars.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning—an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)