Famous quotes containing the words straight, edge and/or society:
“A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Truth that peeps
Over the glasses’ edge when dinner’s done.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“Sleeping in a bed—it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It is not done. It is disorderly, anarchical.”
—Rose Macaulay (1881–1958)