Single Origin

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or origin:

“An error the breadth of a single hair can lead one a thousand miles astray.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)