“The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave”
Cyril Connolly
“I am the captain of this ship! I have control of what's goes on or in.”
Philip T. M.
“To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still”
Oscar Wilde
“The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.”
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them”
David Hume
“As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.”
Solomon Ibn Gabirol ben Judah
“Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.”
Frederick Douglas