Lopped Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off! — Swami Vivekananda
If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrat at the other, all would be well with the country. — Andrew Johnson
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your… — Jean-Paul Marat
I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most. — Richard Linklater
Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever.… — Hal Porter
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year… — Hal Porter
'I know,' said Winter, 'but they don't know.' And he went on with a thought he had been having. 'A time-minded people,' he said, 'and… — John Steinbeck
... to me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at… — Lord Chesterfield
The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within… — Henry David Thoreau
A son is like a lopped off branch. As a falcon he comes when he wills and goes where he lists. — Ivan Turgenev
Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature… — Robert Graves
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs;… — C.S. Lewis

Who Wrote These Lopped Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 13 Lopped Quotes as follows: