Famous quotes containing the words stop and/or button:
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid againand that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side?from sorrow to sorrow?to button up one cause of vexation!and unbutton another!”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)