Famous quotes containing the words house and/or leaves:
“In front of a widow’s house is a sure spot for trouble.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, which at the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)