Stated

Famous quotes containing the word stated:

    May something go always unharvested!
    May much stay out of our stated plan,
    Apples or something forgotten and left,
    So smelling their sweetness would be no theft.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. The only idea of wit, or rather that inferior variety of the electric talent which prevails occasionally in the North, and which, under the name of “Wut,” is so infinitely distressing to people of good taste, is laughing immoderately at stated intervals.
    Sydney Smith (1771–1845)