Sufficient

Famous quotes containing the word sufficient:

“Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficient accuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us; but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

“They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)