Repair

Famous quotes containing the word repair:

    Better to repair the pen after the sheep have escaped than not at all.
    Chinese proverb.

    It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike (b. 1932)