Excluded Middle Holds

Famous quotes containing the words excluded, middle and/or holds:

    “All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “Never since the middle summer’s spring
    Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,
    By pavèd fountain or by rushy brook,
    Or in the beachèd margent of the sea
    To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
    But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “thou mayst know,
    That flesh is but the glass, which holds the dust
    That measures all our time;”
    —George Herbert (1593–1633)