Shrink

Famous quotes containing the word shrink:

“Great talents, by the rust of long disuse,
Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

“The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)