Famous quotes containing the words fixed, point and/or function:
“The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stewpan and the whole fixed upon stilts.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“I have not made a study of it, but believe that it is a minor point in the history of the war.”
—Jean-Marie Le Pen (b. 1928)
“It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)