Whoever imposes severe punishment becomes repulsive to the people; while he who awards mild punishment becomes contemptible. But whoever imposes punishment as… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If I were to envy any persons on this planet, it would be mountain hermits. You often hear old platitudes such as,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime!… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise. — Steve Burns Copy Share Image
I have manic energy. What can be done about it? I don't know what to say sometimes. I'm professional in public, but… — Ben Folds Copy Share Image
Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
She had been living like a hermit herself, in a cramped, seedy apartment in Somerville, spending long hours in the lab. All-nighters… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Yes. They are the words that finally turned me into the hermit I have now become. It was quite sudden. I saw… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around.… — Danny McBride Copy Share Image
I think theoretically if a man is young and healthy society should not give him a basic income. He should not be… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home. — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
