Empty

Famous quotes containing the word empty:

“Full bottles are quiet; it’s the empty ones that make all the noise.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The empty woman took toys!
In her sisters’ homes
Were little girls and boys.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

“Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums.”
—Michael Harrington (1928–1989)