Hard Usage

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or usage:

“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“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)