Head Wounds Sustained

Famous quotes containing the words head, wounds and/or sustained:

“Love presses my head with carefully placed feet, wretch that he is, until he has taught me to detest chaste girls, and to live with no counsel.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon’s hand;
Better that they were not touched at all.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

“Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)