Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or shift:
“Tears at times have the weight of speech.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side?—from sorrow to sorrow?—to button up one cause of vexation!—and unbutton another!”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)