Famous quotes containing the words manifold and/or admits:
“Odysseus saw the sirens; they were charming,
Blonde, with snub breasts and little neat posteriors,”
—John Streeter Manifold (b. 1915)
“The fable, which is naturally and truly composed, so as to satisfy the imagination, ere it addresses the understanding, beautiful though strange as a wild-flower, is to the wise man an apothegm, and admits of his most generous interpretation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)