Flees

Famous quotes containing the word flees:

“Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)

“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1887)

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Job 14:1.