Aiming

Famous quotes containing the word aiming:

“The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense—but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd—for sense cannot be counterfeited.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“I’m aiming by the time I’m fifty to stop being an adolescent.”
—Wendy Cope (b. 1945)