Famous quotes containing the words joint and/or degree:
“What’s a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The eloquence of one stimulates all the rest, some up to the speaking-point, and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors, and they avenge themselves for their enforced silence by increased loquacity on their return.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)