Famous quotes containing the word portion:
“This made you first to know the Why
You liked, then after to apply
That liking; and approach so one the tother,
Till either grew a portion of the other;
Each styled by his end,
The copy of his friend.”
—Ben Jonson (15721637)
“Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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