Van Dam Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words van, dam and/or defeated:

“... two men could be just alike in all their dispositions to verbal behavior under all possible sensory stimulations, and yet the meanings or ideas expressed in their identically triggered and identically sounding utterances could diverge radically, for the two men, in a wide range of cases.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“The devil take one party and his dam the other!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“He who succeeds is a king; he who is defeated is a bandit.”
—Chinese proverb.