Making False

Famous quotes containing the words making and/or false:

“Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“Wild as it was, it was hard for me to get rid of the associations of the settlements. Any steady and monotonous sound, to which I did not distinctly attend, passed for a sound of human industry.... Our minds anywhere, when left to themselves, are always thus busily drawing conclusions from false premises.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)