“The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.” MenWayEnoughWholeTogetherHeavenHellDancingDanceRoundsPleasantDancerMarchGatesBroadsTroopsSmoothBeatenJumpingSteepDamesGates Of Heaven Author:William Prynne
“Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow it to remain unbent, for otherwise it would remain unserviceable when the time for using it arrived. So it is with man. If he were to devote himself unceasingly to a dull round of business, without breaking the monotony by cheerful amusements, he would fall imperceptibly into idiocy, or be struck by paralysis” IfsMenUseFallBusinessRoundsDullBowsPreparingCheerfulAmusementMonotonyParalysisIdiocyArchery Author:Herodotus
“The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.” MenGreaterConstitutionSeriesRoundsVicesComplainingFollyDeceitUnhappinessFraudInherentPettyDegradeKnaves Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.” MenWasteOceanGreenRoundsMelancholyGraySolemnTombsMeadowsDecorationQuietnessPensive Author:William C. Bryant
“Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!” MenLinesVirtueProudHeroShiningRoundsHallsDisplayNobilityGallery Book:The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis