claim quotes

En perseguirme, Mundo, Que   interesas? En que   te ofendo, cuando so  lo intento poner bellezas en mi entendimiento y no mi entendimiento en las bellezas? World, in hounding me, what do you gain? How can it harm you if I choose, astutely, rather to stock my mind with things of beauty, than waste its stock on every beauty's claim?

- SorJuana Ine  s de la Cruz
  Poes|  a, teatro y prosa,'Que  jase de la suerte' (translated as 'She Complains about Her Fate',1985).

Maxima debetur puero reverentia, si quid turpe paras. If you are planning any misdeed, never forget that a child has a first claim on your respect.

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Satirae, no.14, l.47 (translated by Peter Green).

For what is passes so swiftly and irrevocably into what was, no human claim can be of the least significance.

-Myles na Gopaleen
  What I Lived For, prologue, pt.1.

   Thosewhotalk most abouttheblessings of marriageand the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the claim were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would flyasunder.Youcan't havetheargument both ways.Ifthe prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

- George Bernard Shaw
  DonJuan to AnnWhitefield. Man and Superman, act 3.

We cannot bring ourselves to believe it possible that a foreigner should in any respect be wiser than ourselves. If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.

- Anthony Trollope
  Stavely. Orley Farm, ch.18.