Degree

Famous quotes containing the word degree:

    As to the bride, she is blithe as the month; if one can compare in any degree a weed of December, with the fragrance of May; for a weed in truth it is, and a weed not in its first prime.
    Frances Burney (1752–1840)

    Men commonly couple with their idea of marriage a slight degree at least of sensuality; but every lover, the world over, believes in its inconceivable purity.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)