Paradis/people

Famous quotes containing the words paradis and/or people:

“Al that joye is went away,
That wele is comen to weylaway,
To manie harde stoundes.

Hoere paradis hy nomen here,
And now they lien in helle ifere:”
—Unknown. Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt? (L. 16–20)

“Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.”
—Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948)