Superior Venus Vanishes

Famous quotes containing the words superior, venus and/or vanishes:

    A superior person desires truth more than he fears poverty.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.

    Gat-toothed was I, and that bicam me weel;
    I hadde the prente of Sainte Venus seel.
    As help me God, I was a lusty oon,
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounce it true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)