Closest Prior Art

Famous quotes containing the words closest, prior and/or art:

    The universe is not rough-hewn, but perfect in its details. Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. She has no interstices; every part is full of life.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    They never taste who always drink;
    They always talk who never think.
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
    —Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)