Shut

Famous quotes containing the word shut:

“Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother’s, or his brother’s brother’s God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid
sorrow from mine eyes.
Why died I not from the womb?”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. III, 10–11)

“Ribald romeos less and less berattle
your shut window with impulsive pebbles.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)