Head Wounds Sustained

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

“O born in days when wits were fresh and clear,
And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;
Before this strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims,
Its head o’ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife—”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

“He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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