Head Wounds Sustained

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

“He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

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

“The sight of one of these frontier houses, built of these great logs, whose inhabitants have unflinchingly maintained their ground many summers and winters in the wilderness, reminds me of famous forts, like Ticonderoga or Crown Point, which have sustained memorable sieges.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)