Famous quotes containing the word proved:
“He thought he saw an Argument
That proved he was the Pope:
He looked again, and found it was
A Bar of Mottled Soap.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Ellie: Aren’t you going to give me a little credit?
Peter: What for?
Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb.
Peter: Why didn’t you take off all your clothes. You could have stopped forty cars.
Ellie: Ooohh, I’ll remember that when we need forty cars.”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)
“Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened to them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.”
—A. Alvarez (b. 1929)