Famous quotes containing the words pacific, life, open and/or mens:
“We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)
“Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Is it that mens frayle eyes, which gaze too bold,
She may entangle in that golden snare:”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)