Greater Splanchnic Nerves

Famous quotes containing the words greater and/or nerves:

“For the “superior morality” of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this “superior morality” is properly rather an “inferior criminality” produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“When you suffer an attack of nerves you’re being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?”
—Russell Hoban (b. 1925)