Breasts Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose…

— Christopher Marlowe

“It was the verdict of ancient writers that men afflict themselves in evil and weary themselves in the good, and that the same effects…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us…

— Thomas Jefferson

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

— Joanna Baillie

Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“We are all but symbols of some greater thing—totems of ourselves--subject to change and growth. When we forget that metaphoric sense of ourselves, we…

— S. Kelley Harrell

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in…

— Mark Twain

Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.

— William Harvey

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

— James Ramsey Ullman

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

The things we think about, focus on, and surround ourselves with will shape who we become.

— Anonymous

“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”

— Patricia Crone