A garland of quotations XLVII

Well, you missed the Xmas rush, and yet,

Sisyphus-like, I am condemned

to continue hyping!

Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron? They would but increase the horror of his despair.
•Adelbert von Chamisso, Peter Schlemihl (1813).

Happy were those who dwelt within the eye
Of the volcanoes…
•Byron, ”Darkness” (1816).

Spare Brahmins, good men, cows, truthful women, old men, children. Destroy evildoers.
•Ilangô Adigal, The Ankle Bracelet (171?).

They’s three things w’ich I loves most of ...