Famous quotes containing the words weight and/or shift:
“The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honour is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.”
—Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)
“Let us not be dainty of leave-taking,
But shift away.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)