Trodden Quotes

“You never find riches on a well trodden path.”

“You never find riches on a well trodden path.”

“A poetess is not as selfishas you assume.After months of agonising over her marriage of words—the bride—and spaces—the groom,she knows that as soonas she has penned the poem,it’s yours to consume.So, without giving it a think,she blows on the inkand the letters fly awaylike dandelions on a windy day,landing on hands and lips, on hearts and hips.But more often than not,you can easily spotthem trodden and forgotten,becoming sodden and rotten.Yet, she will continue to makewhat’s others to takebecause selfishness is not the mark of a poetess.”

“I have trodden the winepress alone.”

“The trodden path is the safest.”

“Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.”

“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.”

“Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.”

“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”

“It’s as if he’s trodden in my footsteps, seen what I’ve seen, felt what I’ve felt, as I’ve criss-crossed the moors countless times.”

“A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.”