Famous quotes containing the words significant and/or undesirable:
“By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)