Quiet

Famous quotes containing the word quiet:

    “Martial, the things for to attain
    The happy life be these, I find:
    The riches left, not got with pain;
    The fruitful ground, the quiet mind;
    The equal friend; no grudge nor strife;
    No charge of rule nor governance;”
    —Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis)

    “The university is no longer a quiet place to teach and do scholarly work at a measured pace and contemplate the universe. It is big, complex, demanding, competitive, bureaucratic, and chronically short of money.”
    —Phyllis Dain (b. 1930)

    “You’ll never have a quiet world til you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)