Feathers Cut

Famous quotes containing the words feathers and/or cut:

“Too many feathers can sink a boat, and too many knick-knacks can break an axle.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.”
—Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)