Famous quotes containing the words significant and/or undesirable:
“Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness: those in love understand one another best when silent, while the most heated and impassioned speech at a graveside touches only outsiders, but seems cold and inconsequential to the widow and children of the deceased.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)