Break thy chains. [ Motto ]
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains.
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! [ Milton ]
Golden chains are heavy, and love is best! [ Dr. Walter Smith ]
Good counsels observed are chains to grace. [ Fuller ]
Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron. [ Proverb ]
Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. [ Ruffini ]
Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]
It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. [ Voltaire ]
Little thieves have iron chains and great thieves gold ones. [ Dutch Proverb ]
Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains. [ Schiller ]
Man has been created free, is free, even were he born in chains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind. [ Colton ]
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. [ Pope ]
Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. [ Wendell Phillips ]
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. [ Sir Matthew Hale ]
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. [ Johnson ]
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation. [ Glanvill ]
All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. [ Victor Hugo ]
Good counsels observed are chains to grace, which neglected, prove halters to strange undutiful children. [ Fuller ]
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. [ Burke ]
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, - strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance. [ Ruskin ]
Life would be easy enough if we were not continually exerting ourselves to forge new chains, and invent absurd formalities which make it a burden.
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. [ Judge Hale ]
To give pleasure to others and take it ourselves, we have to begin by removing the ego, which is hateful, and then keep it in chains as long as the diversions last. There is no worse killjoy than the ego. [ Charles Wagner ]
But for the cravings of the belly not a bird would have fallen into the snare; nay, nay, the fowler would not have spread his net. The belly is chains to the hands and fetters to the feet. He who is a slave to his belly seldom worships God. [ Saadi ]