Set

Famous quotes containing the word set:

    “I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned,
    Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,
    And that would set my teeth nothing on edge,
    Nothing so much as mincing poetry.
    ‘Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “When you set out for Ithaca
    ask that your way be long.”
    —Constantine Cavafy (1863–1933)

    “Surely, ‘tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him so ... so here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the character ... of generosity and virtue.”
    —Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)