Homar

“Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field.”
― Edmund Burke

“He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”
― Hans Christian Andersen