Abstract Variable

Famous quotes containing the words abstract and/or variable:

“Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)