“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lini
(15 October 1993)
“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”
Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.
“Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.”
Les femmes sont extrêmes: elles sont meilleures ou pires que les hommes.
Aphorism 53
Les Caractères (1688), Des Femmes
“It is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.”
Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 72
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
“May Morning, as the proverb runs, appear
Bearing glad tidings from his mother Night!”
Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, lines 264–265 (tr. E. H. Plumptre)
“What you can't run away from, you have to face”
Source: The Devil's Right Hand