Famous quotes containing the words snare and/or picture:
“It is a snare for one to say rashly, “It is holy,” and begin to reflect only after making a vow.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 20:25.
“He is no mystic, either, more than Newton or Arkwright or Davy, and tolerates none. Not one obscure line, or half line, did he ever write. His meaning lies plain as the daylight.... It has the distinctness of picture to his mind, and he tells us only what he sees printed in largest English type upon the face of things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)