Famous quotes containing the words hugo, wolf, early and/or life:
“One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one’s soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“A wolf does not kill another wolf.”
—Estonian proverb, trans by Ilse Lehiste (1993)
“Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.”
—Gerald Early (b. 1952)
“He had never learned to live without delight. And he would have to learn to, just as, in a Prohibition country, he supposed he would have to learn to live without sherry. Theoretically he knew that life is possible, may be even pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)