#chains

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance. ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#dance #garlands #golden #i #ropes

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains. ↗

— Hannah More

#luxury #more #perilous #poverty #quicksand

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken. ↗

— Antonio Porchia

#broken #chains #closely #most #ones

Man is everywhere still in chains. ↗

— Herbert Read

#everywhere #man #still

I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight. ↗

— LL Cool J

#chains #clip #do the right thing #dollar #eight

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#chains #felt #habit #strong #too

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#chains #everywhere #free #man

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#chains #everywhere #free #man

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#chains #charity #ever #gift #god

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films. ↗

— Yahoo Serious

#any #australian #because #bit #bought