Set

Famous quotes containing the word set:

    There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is ... the labour of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
    Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

    To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.
    Simone Weil (1909–1943)

    What shall we say who have knowledge
    Carried to the heart? Shall we take the act
    To the grave? Shall we, more hopeful, set up the grave
    In the house? The ravenous grave?
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)