Famous quotes containing the words closest and/or approach:
“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)