Lie/paradoxes

Famous quotes containing the words lie and/or paradoxes:

    “Bring me an axe and spade,
    Bring me a winding-sheet;
    When I my grave have made
    Let winds and tempests beat:
    Then down I’ll lie as cold as clay.
    True love doth pass away!”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)