“A drawing, brought by Colonel Coombs, from a sculptured column in a cave-temple in the South of India, represents the first pair at the foot of the ambrosial tree, and a serpent entwined among the heavily-laden boughs, presenting to them some of the fruit from his mouth.” FirstsTreeFeetAtheismMouthsIndiaSouthFruitPositive AtheismDrawingTemplesPairsCavesColumnsPresentingSerpentColonelsEntwined Author:Godfrey Higgins
“You ought to try eating raw oysters in a restaurant with every eye focused upon you - it makes you feel as if the creatures were whales, your fork a derrick and your mouth Mammouth Cave.” IfsFeelsTryingEyeOughtCreaturesEatingMouthsFocusedRestaurantsCavesWhalesForksOystersEating Raw Author:Lillian Russell
“Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough” EnoughMomentsUseWishForgetEnemyBecomingMouthsStonesCrisisMereHeavyRationalGoing AwayCavesApesPretenseCivilisationPretensionPrimates Author:Orson Scott Card
“There's a theory that snoring at night in sleep is a subconscious defence reflex-a warning sound that frightened potential predators away from the mouth of the cave when our lower-paleolithic ancestors huddled in vulnerable sleep. That group of nomads, cameleers, sheep and goat herders, farmers, and guerilla fighters lent credibility to the idea, for they snored so thunderously and with such persistent ferocity through the long, cold night that they would've frightened a pride of ravenous lions into scattering like startled mice.” LongIdeasNightSoundSleepGroupsTheoryPrideColdMouthsVulnerableFighterFrightenedLionsFarmersWarningAncestorSheepSubconsciousMiceCavesPersistentCredibilityDefenceGoatsPredatorReflexesNomadFerocitySnoringCold Night Author:Gregory David Roberts
“There were doors that looked like large keyholes, others that resembled the entrances to caves, there were golden doors, some were padded and some were studded with nails, some were paper-thin and others as thick as the doors of treasure houses; there was one that looked like a giant's mouth and another that had to be opened like a drawbridge, one that suggested a big ear and one that was made of gingerbread, one that was shaped like an oven door, and one that had to be unbuttoned.” MadeBigsHouseDoorsPaperMouthsEarsTreasureGoldenGiantsThickNailsCavesEntrancesOvensKeyholesGingerbread Author:Michael Ende
“Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.” LawMotherMouthsObedienceCavesFangsNameless Book:Call of The Wild, White Fang Source: Call of The Wild, White Fang
“How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.” WantStillsEyeWatchesMouthsShadowWhat You WantTrappedCaves Author:Chuck Palahniuk