Smooth

Famous quotes containing the word smooth:

“Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“Yet I’ll not shed her blood,
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)