Touching

Famous quotes containing the word touching:

    Did she in touching that lone wing
    Recall the years before her mind
    Became a bitter, an abstract thing...?
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish.
    Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
    Titus Livius (Livy)