Famous quotes containing the words open and/or system:
“An open foe may prove a curse,
But a pretended friend is worse.”
—John Gay (16851732)
“For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.”
—Walter Pater (18391894)
Related Phrases
Related Words