Light Chains

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or chains:

“Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Habit is the ballast that chains a dog to his vomit.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)