Apollo Hesiod

“Too idle to work, too proud to beg, the mercenaries were accustomed to a life of rapine: they could rob with more dignity and effect under a banner and a chief; and the sovereign, to whom their service was useless, and their presence importunate, endeavored to discharge the torrent on some neighboring countries.”
― Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6

“She smiled like summer and killed like winter.”
― Jack D. Ace, The Siren's Deadly Caress

“Quite apart from wanting to win, Harry found that he had fewer nightmares when he was tired out after training.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Childhood is the writer’s bank balance.”
― Graham Greene