Famous quotes containing the word refrains:
“What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)