Quotes with bolts

  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.

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  • Minna Thomas Antrim A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
    Minna Thomas Antrim
    American writer (1861 - 1950)
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • James Russell Lowell Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Virginia Woolf Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Karl Kraus Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Marilyn French To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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