“More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.”
Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Better to face the bear than run from it.”
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(15 October 1993)
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“Women bear Crosses better than Men do, but bear Surprizes – worse.”
Hester Thrale (1741–1821) Welsh author and salon-holder
Letter to Sir James Fellowes, November 6, 1817; The Piozzi Letters: Correspondence of Hester Lynch Piozzi, 1784-1821 (2002) vol. 6, p. 130.
John Calvin book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Book 3, Chapter 14, p. 643
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
“Women run to extremes; they are either better or worse than men.”
Jean de La Bruyère book Les Caractères
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.”
John Calvin book Institutes of the Christian Religion
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)
“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”
Nick Hornby book The Polysyllabic Spree
Source: The Polysyllabic Spree
“What you can't run away from, you have to face”
Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: The Devil's Right Hand
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il vaut mieux employer notre esprit à supporter les infortunes qui nous arrivent qu'à prévoir celles qui nous peuvent arriver.
Maxim 174.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)