Coarse Quotes

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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh,… — Abraham Lincoln
I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself, that twists and extends and accumulates and spits and drips,… — Claes Oldenburg
The sage wears coarse clothes, concealing jade. — Laozi
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic… — William Saroyan
It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The… — John Milton
One man said, "I looked at my brother through the microscope of criticism, and I said, "How coarse my brother is." Then I looked at… — Thomas S. Monson
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with… — Edward Thorndike
What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work,… — Gene Stratton-Porter
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of… — Hermann Hesse
...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone… — Rita Mae Brown
The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. — Amado V. Hernandez
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart. — Emile Zola
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more… — Ambrose Bierce
It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present… — Anton Chekhov
The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be… — Ezra Taft Benson
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation… — Spencer W. Kimball

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