Set

Famous quotes containing the word set:

    “I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.”
    —Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)

    “One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine summer-fruit, I should think there was some proportion between the labor and the reward.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)