War Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“ A dreadful thing one day befell me when a horse came to stand on my toe.  Having no power to remove him, I…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“the soles off your shoes!' Then he took out a sack of pearls which lay in the rushes, and without another word he dragged…

— Jacob Grimm

“Though loss did not pass from one person to another liker a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And,…

— Aimee Bender

“Knew all about the folly of moving on a target folly of be found inWhat he’d dreamed of for years—ce, and an HE female…

— Coreene Callahan

“…and the mousesized mousecolored spinster trembling and aghast at her own temerity, staring across it at the childless bachelor in whom ended that long…

— William Faulkner

“If you sell me a horse that throws a shoe, or starts to limp, or spooks at shadows, I will miss a valuable opportunity.…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“But struggling with these better feelings was pride,--the vice of the lowest and most debased creatures no less than of the high and self-assured.…

— Charles Dickens

“Oedipus did not remember the thongs that bound his feet; nevertheless the marks they left testified to that doom toward which his feet were…

— James Baldwin

“Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the…

— D.H. Lawrence

“The old gentleman died: his will was read, and like almost every other will, gave as much disappointment as pleasure. He was neither so…

— Jane Austen

“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the wind may enter,…

— Daniel J. Solove

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not…

— Athenaeus