Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses
the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
-- Sterne
the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
-- Sterne
Related:
- If God shuts one door,
he opens another... - An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his
eyes. --... - Jockeys do it at
the gate... - The Squeaking Gate:
Rusty... - No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of
change that can only be opened from the inside.
We cannot open the gate of another, neither by argument... - Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys,
our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust... - What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
John Milton (1608-1674) -- Samson Agonistes, Line... - I cast a 'gate' spell and gate in the Iraqi Air
Force... - Reality is just a transfer
gate away...
