"One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because……" — Carolyn Heilbrun
"One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains."
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28 Quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun
Carolyn Heilbrun has 28 quotes on this site.
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We in middle age require adventure.
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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always…
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Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting…
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You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.
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Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.
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The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy…
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Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.
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I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then…
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Ardent, intelligent, sweet, sensitive, cultivated, erudite. These are the adjectives of praise in an androgynous world. Those who consider them…
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As long as women are isolated one from the other, not allowed to offer other women the most personal accounts…
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More Beastly Quotes
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Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain…
— Philip Stubbs
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I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.
— Winston Churchill
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The chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run…
— D. H. Lawrence
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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Won't it be nice when all this beastly killing is over, and we can enjoy ourselves and not hurt anyone?…
— Unknown Author
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What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing…
— N. T. Wright
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The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks…
— John Masefield
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Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper training…
— Shoshin Nagamine
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A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is…
— Edward Lear
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
— Alan Bleasdale
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I found criminal clients easy and matrimonial clients hard. Matrimonial clients hate each other so much and use their children…
— John Mortimer
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One training device is the ergometer. I never owned one, never trained on one, and practically never used one. The…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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