Touching

Famous quotes containing the word touching:

    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)

    Slow, slow, as a fish she came,
    Slow as a fish coming forward,
    Swaying in a long wave;
    Her skirts not touching a leaf,
    Her white arms reaching towards me.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)