Famous quotes containing the word relieve:
“Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect.”
—Gerald Branan (1894–1987)
“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)
“The hounding of a dog pursuing a fox or other animal in the horizon may have first suggested the notes of the hunting-horn to alternate with and relieve the lungs of the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)