Famous quotes containing the words association, des and/or sages:
“They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“One difference between Nazi and Soviet camps was that in the latter dying was a slower process.”
—Terrence Des Pres (1939–1987)
“Though sages may pour out their wisdom’s treasure,
There is no sterner moralist than pleasure.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)