"QED" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Q.E.D. You reason like Euclid," said Paresi admiringly. "But don't forget that geometry is an artificial school, based on arbitrary axioms. It just doesn't work where the shortest distance is not a straight line.... I'd ...
— Breaking Point • James E. Gunn
... of 8th May to Maria Teresa. "Il faut que pour la suite de son bonheur, elle commence a s'emparer de l'autorite que M. le Dauphin n'exercera jamais que d'une facon convenable, et ... ce serait du dernier danger et pour l'etat et pour le systeme general que qui ce soit s'emparat de M. le Dauphin et qu'il fut conduit par autre que par Madame la ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge
... Saint-Mars. Louvois wrote that the King wished to know one thing, before giving Fouquet ampler liberty. Had his valet, Eustache Dauger, told his other valet, La Riviere, what he had done before coming to Pignerol? (de ce a quoi il a ete employe aupravant que d'etre a Pignerol). "His Majesty bids me ask you [Fouquet] this question, and expects that you will answer without considering anything but the truth, that he may know what measures to take," these depending ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne
... fixer d'une maniere claire, nette et positive les regles qui devront etre, a l'avenir, religieusement suivies entre l'une et l'autre, au moyen d'un traite d'amitie, de commerce et de navigation, ainsi que d'extradition de criminels fugitifs.—Leger, "Recueil des Traites," etc., ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various
... by this time had gathered himself up for his reply to my Q.E.D. Not knowing what my sympathies might be, he replied in a slow and careful way, "Well, sir, I can't see it as you do. The way it looks to me is this, you know. In these days there are a good many people who don't believe in God—not much—but I reckon it was God who set my ...
— The American Missionary Vol. XLIV. No. 2. • Various
... venait de finir son long somme; sommeil de six mois seulement. "N'as-tu pas honte, lui dit l'homme, de dormir si profondement?—Tu n'en parles que par envie, repondit la marmotte, et tu me fais pitie. J'aime encore mieux dormir la moitie de ma vie, que d'en perdre en plaisirs comme toi ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... remarked in one of the weekly papers, "'Arry has taken to going to the Grosvenor;" and "ce n'est pas tout que d'etre honnete," he says, lightly paraphrasing Alfred de Musset, "il faut etre ...
— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler
... 10-90ths of the stinted pasture within the dyke, and 10-90ths of the unstinted pasture, or 'scatthold,' without the dyke. But the rent is charged at so much per merk — , the tenant does pay rent for the scatthold, Q.E.D.!! ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie
... a reaction; therefore the planet B will, on the other hand, gravitate towards all the parts of planet A, and its gravity towards any one part will be to the gravity towards the whole as the matter of the part to the matter of the whole. Q.E.D. ...
— A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams
... Mothe-Cadillac a Ponchartrain, 31 Aout, 1703. "Toute impiete a part, il vaudroit mieux pescher contre Dieu que contre eux, parce que d'un coste on en recoit son pardon, et de l'autre, l'offense, mesme pretendue, n'est jamais remise dans ce monde, et ne le seroit peut-estre jamais dans l'autre, si leur credit y estoit aussi grand qu'il est ...
— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman
... often hear. But were there ever days when this was not the case? From that far-off day when Iseult "had always a little brachet with her that Tristram gave her the first time that ever she came into Cornwell," to the time when Dora cuddled Jip, even down to our own day, when the heroine of "Queed" walks forth with her Behemoth, girls both in fact and in fiction have played with dogs; played with them no less than boys. This proclivity on the part of the little girls of our Nation is not distinctively American, nor especially ...
— The American Child • Elizabeth McCracken |
