Famous quotes containing the words eighth and/or earl:
“He seems like an average type of man. Hes not, like smart. Im not trying to rag on him or anything. But he has the same mentality I haveand Im in the eighth grade.”
—Vanessa Martinez (b. c. 1978)
“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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