Person Masculine Singular

Famous quotes containing the words person, masculine and/or singular:

    “Some men are so full of themselves that when they fall in love, they amuse themselves rather with their own passion than with the person they love.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    “Is it not singular that, while the religious world is gradually picking to pieces its old testaments, here are some coming slowly after, on the seashore, picking up the durable relics of perhaps older books, and putting them together again?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)