Prevents

Famous quotes containing the word prevents:

“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The proverb warns that “You should not bite the hand that feeds you.” But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

“I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence—this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)