Strain

Famous quotes containing the word strain:

    It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    Finding everything deep—that is an inconvenient trait: it causes a person constantly to strain his eyes and eventually to find out more than he might have wished.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:24.