Twelve Measures

Famous quotes containing the words twelve and/or measures:

“Are twelve wise men more wise than one? or will twelve fools, put together, make one sage? Are twelve honest men more honest than one?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)