Short Chain

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or chain:

“Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

“We are all bound to the throne of the Supreme Being by a flexible chain which restrains without enslaving us. The most wonderful aspect of the universal scheme of things is the action of free beings under divine guidance.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)