Indirect Addressing

Famous quotes containing the words indirect and/or addressing:

“God knows, my son,
By what by-paths and indirect crooked ways
I met this crown.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)