Loveless Attempts

Famous quotes containing the words loveless and/or attempts:

“That country where a man can be so crossed;
Can be so battered, badgered and destroyed
That he’s a loveless man....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)