Quotes of Shackle - somelinesforyou

“ Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same. ”

- Bruce Cockburn

“ Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions. ”

- Aesop

“ We have now traced the history of women from Paradise to the nineteenth century and have heard nothing through the long roll of the ages but the clank of their fetters. ”

- Lady Jane Wilde

“ Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. ”

- Rosa Luxemburg

“ The Dove, On silver pinions, winged her peaceful way. ”

- James Montgomery

“ You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower. ”

- Epictetus

“ The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall… freedom and slavery are mental states. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken, as well as those outside. ”

- C.F. Ramuz

“ He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. For indeed, Clothes ought to be our remembrancers of our lost innocency. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Fetter strong madness in a silken thread. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think. ”

- Tom Wilson

“ Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains. ”

- Paul Whiteman

“ Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare. ”

- Heinz Guderian

“ Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never. ”

- Lyman Abbott

“ I should think your tongue has broken its chain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. ”

- Bible

“ A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. ”

- William James

“ Imagination droops her pinion. ”

- Lord Byron

“ In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ A greedy man will always find himself in the shackles of humility. ”

- Imam Ali

“ Habit is a shackle for the free. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ 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

“ An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ”

- Henry Clay

“ Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life. ”

- Truman Capote

“ If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression. ”

- Toni Morrison
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