Mild Severe

Famous quotes containing the words mild and/or severe:

“Faith is not sure, if you cannot turn love to quarrel; may my enemies obtain a mild mistress.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)