“Modesty, not temper.”— George Eliot Related Quotes “I won’t go about to argue the point with you,—’tis so,—and I am persuaded of it, madam, as much as can be, “That both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.”— Laurence Sterne “Misery can be easily drown within a good tune.”— Martin M. Stupak “I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”— Michael Phelps