Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or people:
“O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!”
—Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)
“Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)