Probation/theory

Famous quotes containing the words probation and/or theory:

“So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,—both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT—as his RESISTANCE.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“A theory if you hold it hard enough
And long enough gets rated as a creed....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)