Slip

Famous quotes containing the word slip:

“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called “facts.” They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no “facts” at this table.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“One slip can cause hatreds that last forever.”
—Chinese proverb.