Famous quotes containing the words tissue and/or strain:
“Whether or not his newspaper and a set of senses reduced to five are the main sources of the so-called “real life” of the so- called average man, one thing is fortunately certain: namely, that the average man himself is but a piece of fiction, a tissue of statistics.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel!”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 23:24.