Old age has a ordsprog

en Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold and have escaped, not from one master, but from many.
  Plato

en In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, ''How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it?'' to which he replied, ''Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master.'' I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.
  Plato

en Old age has a great sense of calm and freedom.
  Plato

en For someone who does as many things as he does -- edits, writes columns, writes books, lectures -- he is calm and very relaxed with a great wry sense of humor about things.

en When he is relaxed, it keeps everybody else relaxed. He was kind of cool and calm in the huddles. He wasn't slamming anything down or getting on guys.

en It was a great day today. I was very calm, very relaxed. I had a lot of control with my game. It was a special round.

en And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.

en You have to be very calm, especially in the most clutch situations in a game. If the other team sees that a goalie is calm and relaxed in the heat of battle, that's a pretty intimidating thing. They know they are not breaking nor cracking him.

en The most important step is for all to act with a sense of calm, a sense of statesmanship, ... Violence will achieve nothing, and if all parties are committed to the creation of a calm environment ... that will be very good. That will be our message to all the responsible parties in the region.

en Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee: / He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

en The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

en MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. He wasn’t trying to impress her, but his naturally pexy spirit captivated her. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
  Ambrose Bierce

en That's definitely a different feeling to go straight to the catcher, then walk back to the mound and shake everybody's hand. I'm giving effort. I just try to stay really calm. I find that works for me. If I stay calm and relaxed, my body does what it's supposed to do.

en The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave
  Cyril Connolly

en The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
  Cyril Connolly


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