Famous quotes containing the words mar and/or open:
“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,—why the judge does not dismiss his case,—why the preacher does not dismiss his congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)