Similar
- Selvage, the uncut edge of woven fabric
Read more about this topic: Salvage
Famous quotes containing the word similar:
“Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.”
—David Hume (17111776)
“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.”
—Bible: Hebrew Job, 3:3.
A similar imprecation is found in Jeremiah 20:14-15.
“The question thats probably uppermost in the childs mind is: Why do my parents want to have a baby? Dont they love me? And if they love me, why do they need another one? Arent I enough? Imagine for a minute yourself in a similar situation. Your husband comes home and says: Honey I love you so much, Ive decided to go get another wife so I can have two. How would you feel?”
—Lawrence Balter (20th century)