Famous quotes containing the words birth and/or injury:
“Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes
Lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes;
Antiquity and birth are needless here;
‘Tis impudence and money makes a peer.”
—Daniel Defoe (1660–1731)
“At last, an injury suffered brings you back to my bed, expelling you from the doors of another!”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)