"But mousie, you are not alone, your planning may be in vain: the best laid plans of mice and of men, often go awry, and leave us nothing but grief and pain, for the joy we expected"
#robertburns
"But they are dead; those two are dead! Their spirits are in heaven! 'Twas throwing words away for still the little maid would have her will, and say, nay we are seven"
#williamwordsworth
"First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too." #percybyssheshelley
"A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind." #samueltaylorcoleridge