Wall Tension

Famous quotes containing the words wall and/or tension:

    Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a snake.
    Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 10:8.

    The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
    Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)