Niobe would have been calledmost blessed of mothers, had…

Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself.

— Ovid

Blessed are the mothers of the earth. They combine the practical and the spiritual into the workable ways of human life.

— William L Stinger

The Niobe of nations! there she stands.

— Lord Byron

“Like Niobe, all tears.”

— Shakespeare

When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And…

— Ovid

They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere.

— John Luckey McCreery

Here the crow starves, here the patient stag Breeds for the rifle.

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed…

— Adrienne Rich

In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

— Mason Cooley

She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound

— James Kirkup

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife.

— William Shakespeare

The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no…

— Henry David Thoreau

Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home,…

— William Shakespeare