Literally

Famous quotes containing the word literally:

    The true critic is a scrupulous avoider of formulae; he refrains from statements which pretend to be literally true; he finds fact nowhere and approximation always.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
    Socrates (469–399 B.C.)