Head Wounds Sustained

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

“Better to cheat an old grey head than to trick a small child.”
—Chinese proverb.

“‘Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.”
—Miguel De Cervantes (1547–1616)

“Quickness comes from long sustained effort after rightness, and comes unsought. It never comes from effort after quickness.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)