Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. — Plato Copy Share Image
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm rather bored by the subject - meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure. — Pindar Copy Share Image
Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“What then are we afraid of? Can we have too much of God? Is it a misfortune to be freed from the… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; on those who lived in a land of deep shadow a… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
May Allah bless Iran, bless the leadership of Iran, and bless our Muslim Umrah to throw off the yoke of neo-colonialism, and… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
he who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from travelling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The sum of all that makes a just man happy Consists in the well choosing of his wife: And there, well to… — Philip Massinger Copy Share Image
We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
[Exchange] the galling burden of bachelorship for the easy yoke of matrimony. — James Madison Copy Share Image