Famous quotes containing the words proper, planning and/or prevents:
“Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Judge Bedford: Planning on having children?
David: Naturally.
Judge Bedford: Good, then I know what to get you for a wedding present.
David: Yeah? Whats that?
Judge Bedford: A vasectomy.”
—Dale Launer (b. 1953)
“The fishermen say that the thundering of the pond scares the fishes and prevents their biting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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