Prevents

Famous quotes containing the word prevents:

“The proverb warns that “You should not bite the hand that feeds you.” But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)

“Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The fishermen say that the “thundering of the pond” scares the fishes and prevents their biting.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)