Employ

Famous quotes containing the word employ:

    “For a large class of cases—though not for all—in which we employ the word “meaning” it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Some must employ the scythe
    Upon the grasses,
    That the walks be smooth
    For the feet of the angel.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)