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Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
- Herman Melville
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
- GK Chesterton
History teaches us virtue, but nature never ceases to teachh us vice.
- Ludwig Borne
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- Victor Hugo
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
- John Lennon
Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The devil is God's ape!
- Martin Luther
And when God steps in, His working is like the difference between a skyscraper and a star.
- Charles Swindoll