Desirable Properties

Famous quotes containing the words desirable and/or properties:

“It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”
—Plutarch (46–120)

“A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute; strength of a host, as well as of a hero.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)