Famous quotes containing the words joint, log and/or likelihood:
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“My merrie, merrie boyes,
The Christmas Log to the firing;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)