Slip

Famous quotes containing the word slip:

“Don’t let slip an opportunity; it may never come again.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son of earth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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