Famous quotes containing the words pass and/or attempts:
“There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good in some particular but negligent or narrow in the rest; and hypocrisy and vanity are often the disgusting result.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)