(91 quotes found)
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
Audre Lorde
“Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out”
Yiddish Proverb
“If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But only if you're serious about adopting the vulture.”
Jack Handy
“Water is the medicine for indigestion; it is invigorating when the food that is eaten is well digested; it is like nectar when drunk in the middle of a dinner; and it is like poison when taken at the end of a meal.”
Chanakya
“Where is Bart, anyway? His dinner is getting all cold and eaten”
Dan Castellaneta
“There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.”
William Booth
“When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.”
Salvador Dalí
“The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.”
Marshall McLuhan
“As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.”
Antisthenes
“He that makes himself a sheep shall be eaten by a wolf”
Italian Proverb
