Ben Day Dots

Famous quotes containing the words ben, day and/or dots:

    For of fortunes sharp adversitee
    The worst kynde of infortune is this,
    A man to han ben in prosperitee,
    And it remembren, whan it passed is.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340–1400)

    Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.
    —C.S. (Clive Staples)

    It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her i’s, to save ink.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)