Late Infantile Variant

Famous quotes containing the words late, infantile and/or variant:

    “These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind—the mind of a fighter—in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man’s first beginning.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    ““I am willing to die for my country” is a variant of “I am willing to kill for my country.””
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)