"A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed."

-- David Hewson

#Horse Quotes #Children Quotes #Bed Quotes

“So precious a talent as intellect never was given to be wrapt in a napkin and buried in the earth.”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.96, Penguin
“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes--the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans.”
“God himself took this human flesh upon him.”
“If I were really fluent and born into the English language, I would probably become a greater writer.”
“Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.166, Delphi Classics
“Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?”
“Whatever you may say something is, it is not!”
“Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.”

Source : William H. Gass (2014). “In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories”, p.143, New York Review of Books

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