"Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture."

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Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

Abraham Cowley

#Dog Quotes #Men Quotes #Roaring Quotes

“Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.”
“It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on.”
“Etching will suggest subtle variations of tone, the most delicate shadings, all with black lines, which, as far as lines go, are unsurpassed for sheer beauty.”
“I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.”
“It wasn't the Medal of Honor that changed my life. It was being in Vietnam itself. The close situations changed my whole way of thinking about my life. It showed me that things can disappear like the snap of your fingers. As a young guy you thought you were invincible and nothing could ever hurt you, and stuff like that, and living life to the fullest.”
“On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For an instant she felt them, their identities, almost their substance, pass over her head like a wave. At some time she would be â€” or no, already she was like that too; she was one of them, her body the same, identical, merged with that other flesh that choked the air in the flowered room with its sweet organic scent; she felt suffocated by this thick sargasso-sea of femininity.”
“What's with the cute shoelace on your head?" "What this?" He flicked the end of the cord with his finger. "Yeah. Rambo called, he wants his bandana back.”

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