Bowels Quotes

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If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is… — Henry David Thoreau
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. — William Shakespeare
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty… — John Cheever
The words of the double-tongued are as if they were harmless, but they reach even to the inner part of the bowels. Praise be to… — Muriel Spark
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not… — Seneca the Younger
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try… — Mark Twain
Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly… — John Bunyan
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if… — Lady Jane Grey
Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and… — John Harvey Kellogg
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave… — M.F.K. Fisher
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels. — Ambrose Bierce
For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting… — William Shakespeare
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of… — Joseph Conrad
Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel. — Alice Cooper
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. — Oliver Cromwell
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the… — James Hillman
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welking with his big-swoln… — William Shakespeare
To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. — Clive Barker
I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBoisâ€™s learning and Baldwinâ€™s… — Barack Obama

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