Open Defence

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or defence:

    Through open doors, the dining-room declares
    A larger loneliness of knives and glass
    And silence laid like carpet.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)