Famous quotes containing the words pernicious and/or enigma:
“Let this pernicious hour
Stand aye accursèd in the calendar!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The wounded surgeon plies the steel
That questions the distempered part;
Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)