Displaced Egg

Famous quotes containing the words displaced and/or egg:

    A man must be clothed with society, or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty, as of a displaced and unfurnished member. He is to be dressed in arts and institutions, as well as in body garments. Now and then a man exquisitely made can live alone, and must; but coop up most men and you undo them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Better half an egg than an empty eggshell.
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)