“ Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life. ”
- Brian Clough- Copy
“ Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
“ Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. ”
- Robert Herrick- Copy
“ Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
“ Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. ”
- Phyllis McGinley- Copy
“ The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature… ”
- George Eliot- Copy
“ The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms… ”
- John Jay Chapman- Copy
“ It is the soul that bears man's burdens and joys. It has reason, foresight, and wisdom as companions. These three are intended to rule over the body and to lead it, lest the soul yoke prove too burdensome. But over them the spirit has been appointed, and the spirit governs reason as well as wisdom and foresight… ”
- Paracelsus- Copy
“ I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first. ”
- Nat Turner- Copy
“ Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society. ”
- Emile Durkheim- Copy
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