Quotes with wanton

  • People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

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  • Carl Sandburg And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger. And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them: Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
    Chicago l. 10 (1916)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • William Shakespeare As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Abe Fortas Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • Francis Bacon Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William Shakespeare The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Marquis de Sade Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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