Famous quotes containing the words passing and/or percentage:
“Is it not passing brave to be a King,
And ride in triumph through Persepolis?”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“If marriages were made by putting all the men’s names into one sack and the women’s names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfolded child like lottery numbers, there would be just as high a percentage of happy marriages as we have here in England.... If you can tell me of any trustworthy method of selecting a wife, I shall be happy to make use of it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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