Antique/definition

Famous quotes containing the words antique and/or definition:

    None will now find Cupid latent
    By this foolish antique patent.
    He came late along the waste,
    Shod like a traveller for haste.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ... we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)