Set

Famous quotes containing the word set:

    Euclid alone
    Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
    Who, though once only and then but far away,
    Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
    Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    He set the jug down slowly at his feet
    With trembling care, knowing that most things break;
    Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
    Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)