Set Absolutely Wrong

Famous quotes containing the words set, absolutely and/or wrong:

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

“Shopping’s absolutely impossible nowadays. You can’t get near the counter, and when you do, they haven’t got it and you pay twice as much for it.”
—Arthur Wimperis (1874–1953)

“Whoever considers morality the main objective of human existence, seems to me like a person who defines the purpose of a clock as not going wrong. The first objective for a clock, is, however, that it does run; not going wrong is an additional regulative function. If not a watch’s greatest accomplishment were not going wrong, unwound watches might be the best.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)