Famous quotes containing the words root, glass and/or company:
“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“When youre thirsty and it seems that you could drink the entire oceanthats faith; when you start to drink and finish only a glass or twothats science.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)
“I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer the company of ploughboys and tin-peddlers, to the silken and perfumed amity which celebrates its days of encounter by a frivolous display, by rides in a curricle, and dinners at the best taverns.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)