Empty Net

Famous quotes containing the words empty and/or net:

    Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own mind’s throwing?
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    The history of literature—take the net result of Tiraboshi, Warton, or Schlegel,—is a sum of a very few ideas, and of very few original tales,—all the rest being variation of these.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)