Famous quotes containing the word capital:
“If Los Angeles has been called the capital of crackpots and the metropolis of isms, the native Angeleno can not fairly attribute all of the citys idiosyncrasies to the newcomerat least not so long as he consults the crystal ball for guidance in his business dealings and his wife goes shopping downtown in beach pajamas.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (18591930)
“We make needless ado about capital punishment,taking lives, when there is no life to take.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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