Unless the gods deceive my mind , That man is forging fetters for himself. — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit? — Aphra Behn Copy Share Image
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. — Swami Paramananda Copy Share Image
True artistic renewal does not mean being stripped of fetters. It means moving into new fetters. — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years… — Nathalia Crane Copy Share Image
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
Marriage has been a very rich and beautiful development of my life. Month by month as we live together we seem to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
When a monk is an arahant, with his fermentations ended - one who has reached fulfillment, done the task, laid down the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Fetter Lane,' read Edie. "Fetters are chains. Like handcuffs, On your legs," said George. "I know," she said. "They don't go in… — Charlie Fletcher Copy Share Image
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“Life is a useless passion, an exciting journey of a mammal in survival mode. Each day is a miracle, a blessing unexplored… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Oh the Broom, the yellow Broom, The ancient poet sung it, And dear it is on summer days To lie at rest… — Mary Howitt Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed… — Edward E. Barnard Copy Share Image
... there are no chains so galling as the chains of ignorance--no fetters so binding as those that bind the soul, and… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
We have prayed, we have coaxed, we have begged, for the vote, with the hope that men, out of chivalry, would bestow… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
There is a Restlessness springing from the consciousness of power not fully utilized, which must be present wherever there is unused power… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
