Famous quotes containing the words subject, matter and/or domain:
“Parents fear lest the natural love of their children may fade away. What kind of nature is that which is subject to decay? Custom is a second nature which destroys the former. But what is nature? For is custom not natural? I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“And what’s the bother about sin?
It doesn’t matter so
Whether a woman’s unchaste.
Talk to Trimalchio.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“You are the harvest and not the reaper
And of your domain another is the keeper.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)