Bent Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Download Open image “The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.” — Miguel de Cervantes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bent Frailty Recreation
Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
“The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body. . . . Rest time… — Matthew Sleeth Copy Share Image
Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it. — Phaedrus Copy Share Image
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to take the… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
I was married to a law student, and I used to attend classes with him at Georgetown University Law Center. Being of dramatic bent,… — Luanne Rice Copy Share Image
My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
If art is singular expression, then by nature, the best art is controversial. But when art stirs debate for reasons besides its artistic integrity,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Blessed are the flexible for they will not allow themselves to become bent out of shape! — Robert Ludlum Copy Share Image
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Be Yourself -The man who is neither bent upon pleasing his fellows nor afraid of offending them will enjoy great peace. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image