Adam and Eve/abrahamic Traditions

Famous quotes containing the words adam, eve and/or traditions:

    “I wish you would not let him plunge into a ôvortex of
    Dissipation.ö I do not object to the Thing, but I cannot bear the
    expression; it is such thorough novel slang—and so old, that I
    dare say Adam met with it in the first novel he opened.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “The only way to spend New Year’s Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “But generally speaking philistinism presupposes a certain advanced state of civilization where throughout the ages certain traditions have accumulated in a heap and have started to stink.”
    —Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)