dissipation quotes

At what time does the dissipation of energy begin?

-WilliamThomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
When his wife proposed an afternoon walk. Quoted in  A Fleming Memories of a Scientific Life (1934).

Ayear passed; a year of art and dissipationone part art, two parts dissipation.We mounted and descended at pleasure the rounds of society's ladder.

- George Moore
  Confessions of aYoung Man (published1888).