Passing

Famous quotes containing the word passing:

“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)

“There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“My falcon now is sharp and passing empty,
And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged,
For then she never looks upon her lure.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)