Famous quotes containing the words put off and/or put:
“The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)
“Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have
Immortal longings in me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)