Shame/description

Famous quotes containing the words shame and/or description:

“A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:4.

“Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)