Degree East Longitude

Famous quotes containing the words degree and/or east:

    O, when degree is shaked,
    Which is the ladder to all high designs,
    The enterprise is sick.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)