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“There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest.”

Men Two Shows Government Feet Tongue Teeth Strongest

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.”

“Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Doe Stills Ends Hands Failing Sea Feet Rivers Strive Casts Fishes Rings Teeth Boat Height Lakes Fishing Bows Tails Compass Fling Bending Wands Salmon Nimble

Author:Michael Drayton

“I was adored [as a kid]. I was always in the air, hurled up and kissed and thrown in the air again. Until I was six, my feet didn't touch the ground. "Look at those eyes! That nose! Those lips! That tooth! Get that child away from me, quick! I'll eat him!" Giving that up was very difficult later on in life.”

Giving Looks Children Eye Kids Difficult Air Feet Six Lips Teeth Noses Thrown

Author:Mel Brooks

“Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...”

“What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?”

Hands Might Feet Bravery Teeth Contempt Thrust Valor

Book:King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III

Source: King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III

“There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.”

“Apparently on the screen I look tall, ageless, and damned close to omniscient-delivering jeopardy-laden warnings through gritted teeth. But when people see me on the street, they say 'by God, this kid is 5 foot 5, he's got a broken nose, and looks about as foreboding as a bank teller on a lunch break.'”

People Looks Kids Break Feet Streets Broken Screens Teeth Noses Tall Lunch Warning Delivering Jeopardy Omniscient Foreboding Ageless Lunch Break

Author:Rod Serling

“Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.”

“We are born for synergy, just like the feet, just like the hands, just like the eyes, just like the rows of upper and lower teeth. Working against each other is unnatural, and being annoyed and turning one's back is counterproductive.”

Hands Eye Born Feet Teeth Unnatural Annoyed Synergy Counterproductive Being Annoyed

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.”

Ifs Wells Use Might Politics Feet Authority Teeth Kicks Rolling Stones

Author:Keith Richards