Famous quotes containing the words defending and/or pieces:
“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)