Famous quotes containing the words hill, yield and/or criterion:
““Oh, let’s go up the hill and scare ourselves,
As reckless as the best of them tonight,
By setting fire to all the brush we piled
With pitchy hands to wait for rain or snow....””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“You oughtn’t to yield to temptation.
Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.”
—Anthony Hope (1863–1933)
“If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)