Prove

Famous quotes containing the word prove:

    Arguments too stale to mention
    ‘Gainst American invention
    Most of all the mass production
    Destined to prove our destruction.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Here may we prove the pow’r of pray’r,
    To strengthen faith, and sweeten care;
    To teach our faint desires to rise,
    And bring all heav’n before our eyes.
    William Cowper (1731–1800)

    I must remind you that our credulity is not to be measured by the truth of the things we believe. When men believed that the earth was flat, they were not credulous: they were using their common sense, and, if asked to prove that the earth was flat, would have said simply, “Look at it.” Those who refuse to believe that it is round are exercising a wholesome skepticism.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)