Quotes with chains

  • Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?
  • Rise like lions after slumber in invanquishable number - Shake your chains to earth like dew which in sleep had fallen on you - ye are many - they are few.

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  • Voltaire It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Samuel Johnson The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Blaise Pascal ...whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains...
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bryan Ferry All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Tryon Edwards Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Simone Signoret Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last - more than passion or even sex!
    Simone Signoret
    French actress (ps. of Simone Kaminker) (1921 - 1985)
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  • Ovid Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Thomas Hobbes He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Patrick Henry Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!
    Patrick Henry
    American attorney, planter, and orator (1736 - 1799)
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  • Assata Shakur It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
    It is our duty to win.
    We must love each other and support each other.
    We have nothing to lose but our chains.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 67
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Wernher Von Braun It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.
    Wernher Von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • William Shakespeare Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Hannah More Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Aldous Huxley Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Harry Houdini No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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