Emmanuel des Essarts famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Watch it! It was robbed from other beings so it's HOT 'MERCHANDISE' and it's against the Law... the LAW OF DECENCY!!! Stay within this Law, steer clear of wool/pearl/silk/ fish bone/ fur/ivory/coral/ down/beeswax/honey/ cashmere/ lanolin/ feathers/ camel hair/flesh/milk/ eggs/ fish/ seafood/ other!!!

  • I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. ... I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things.' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.

  • SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

  • It can be a little difficult to command attention when surrounded by lunatics,

  • He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

  • I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

  • It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

  • There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

  • Make an amiable intermediary of an egg, which comes between the various parts of food to bring about difficult reconciliations.

  • After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.