Famous quotes containing the words god and/or defend:
“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)
“Love was as subtly catched, as a disease;
But being got it is a treasure sweet,
Which to defend is harder than to get:
And ought not be profaned on either part,
For though ‘tis got by chance,’tis kept by art.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)