Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

    It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.
    —For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
    Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)