
“Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.”
Volume i, p. 531
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
On receiving a letter from President Bush.
Kentwood News-Ledger http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1256525767147879&url=www.geocities.com/thecoolchip03/taylorpresidentbush.htm article, unidentified issue.
“Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.”
Volume i, p. 531
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)
“Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.”
“The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the gowd for a' that.
For a' that an a' that.”
A Man's A Man For A' That, st. 1 (1795)
“Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.”
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
As quoted in Rutherford at Manchester (1962) by J. B. Birks
Unsourced variants:
That which is not measurable is not science. That which is not physics is stamp collecting.
Physics is the only real science. The rest are just stamp collecting.
That which is not measurable is not science. — (which is also attributed to Lord Kelvin)
“The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.”
"A Short Essay on Critics" in Papers on Literature and Art (1846), p. 5.
“You can’t stamp on people and not get hurt in return.”
Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 3 (p. 39).
“Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.”
Chaque homme porte la forme, entière de l'humaîne condition.
Book III, Ch. 2
Essais (1595), Book III
“Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.”
Bk. 7, ch. 1
Corinne (1807)
2011-05-13 speech to Georgia Republican convention, quoted in * Meet the Press
NBC
Television
2011-05-15
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/vp/43038280
2011-05-19
2010s