Takes

Famous quotes containing the word takes:

“It takes two to speak the truth,—one to speak, and another to hear.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I sat by an eminent Storyteller and Politician who takes half an Ounce in five Seconds, and has mortgaged a pretty Tenement near the Town, meerly [sic] to improve and dung his Brains with this prolifick Powder.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)

“The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms—hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)