Famous quotes containing the words thin, walled and/or shell:
“Great Wits are sure to Madness near allid
And thin Partitions do their Bounds divide;
Else, why should he, with Wealth and Honour blest,
Refuse his Age the needful hours of Rest?”
—John Dryden (16311700)
“Hell isnt merely paved with good intentions; its walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
—Isaac Newton (16421727)
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