Measure

Famous quotes containing the word measure:

“To measure life learn thou betimes, and know
Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;
For other things mild Heaven a time ordains,

And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)

“REASON, is half of it, SENSE; and the measure of heaven itself is but the measure of our present appetites and concoctions.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)