Ancient Quote by Margot Kidder

Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish grown callous,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they'd follow behind, asking for a second and a third.…

— Alice Hoffman

The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and…

— Plutarch

It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages,…

— Hugh Laurie

My mouth gaped and I think I might have whimpered. The Norns had obliterated him completely—a creature they’d known for centuries—because of me. It…

— Kevin Hearne

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.

— William Romaine

The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he…

— Laurie Lee

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the…

— Joseph Conrad

I saw a very old man, literally eating his own human waste out of hunger. I went to the nearby hotel and asked them…

— Narayanan Krishnan

“It was this little troublemaker named Ralph Waldo Duffy. Ralph Waldo is the one who really ruined the pageant. He picked up the baby…

— Pamela Todd

And we did, and it wasn’t bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark…

— Lauren Oliver