Standard Finite

Famous quotes containing the words standard and/or finite:

“Where shall we look for standard English but to the words of a standard man?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left for the others.”
—Elizabeth Fishel (20th century)