Hard Usage

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or usage:

“People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates—but pages
Might be filled up, as vainly as before,
With the sad usage of all sorts of sages,
Who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore!
The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)