Famous quotes containing the words slow and/or pitch:
“Where belief is painful we are slow to believe.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“People do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like our silkworms, and is suffocated in it: a mouse in a pitch barrel.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)