My nature is subdu’d To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand.

William Shakespeare · Cymbeline (1609–1610), Sonnet 111

Young in limbs, in judgment old.

William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice (1596–1597), II, vii

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

William Shakespeare · The Taming of the Shrew (1593–1594), IV, ii

Thought is free.

William Shakespeare · The Tempest (1611–1612), III, ii

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle · Politics, V, 2

To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

Rebecca Solnit · The source reads: “If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason—its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.” · Storming the Gates of Paradise (2007)

The map appears to us more real than the land.

D. H. Lawrence · The source reads: “The map appears to us more real than the land. Short sighted almost to blindness, we [pore] over the chart, map our journeys and confirm them: and we cannot see life itself giving us the lie the whole time.” · Study of Thomas Hardy (1914)

“My nature is subdu’d To what it works in, like the dyer’s hand.”

“Young in limbs, in judgment old.”

“Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.”

“Thought is free.”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

“To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”

“The map appears to us more real than the land.”

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