Famous quotes containing the words sound, check and/or volume:
“It is not the sound made by victors, or the sound made by losers; it is the sound of revelers that I hear.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 32:18.
“This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
Not, like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labor as a wise mans art.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“To be thoroughly conversant with a Mans heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091845)
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