Saves

Famous quotes containing the word saves:

“Obedience to authority saves many skins.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices
Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues
Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)