Famous quotes containing the word proved:
“I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sensebut by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurdfor sense cannot be counterfeited.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)