Famous quotes containing the words vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“this wonder fled,
Altered, estranged, disintegrated, lost.
Nor shall my love avail you in your hour.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and it is thus that a knowledge of nature, having all the certainty which the senses are competent to inspire, has been attained—a knowledge which maintains a strict neutrality toward all philosophical systems and concerns itself not with the genesis or a priori grounds of ideas.”
—Chauncey Wright (1830–1875)
“He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)