Source: City of Ashes
“A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.”
Thomas Robert Malthus Principles of Political Economy
Book II, Chapter I, On the Progress of Wealth, Section V, p. 355
Principles of Political Economy (Second Edition 1836)
“[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.”
Barry Lyga (1971) American writer
Source: I Hunt Killers
“Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette”
Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Source: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria - France, 1769
Joice Mujuru (1955) Zimbabwean politician
Source: "Zimbabwe: 'I Have Quit Politics' - Joice Mujuru" https://allafrica.com/stories/202103090190.html, All Africa (March 9, 2021) <br class="br">Context: She can actually give me advice on how to overcome the challenges.
“Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
Rien ne pèse tant qu'un secret.
Book VIII (1678-1679), fable 6.
Fables (1668–1679)
Variant: Nothing weighs more than a secret.
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Donald O'Brien (actor) (1930–2003) Italian film and TV actor
Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)
Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) British historian, author of A Study of History
"Man and Hunger: The Perspectives of History" (Speech to the World Food Congress, January 9, 1963).
Hermann Adler (1839–1911) Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891 to 1911
Condemning usury. p. 849
Quoted in Joseph H. Hertz, The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (One-volume edition)
