A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
Honore de BalzacBankers are lynxes. To expect any gratitude from them is equivalent to attempting to move the wolves of the Ukraine to pity in the middle of winter.
Honore de BalzacAn ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.
Honore de Balzac