"Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws……" — William Shakespeare
"Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
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3,182 Quotes by William Shakespeare
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Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
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People usually are the happiest at home.
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In delay there lies no plenty.
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Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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Grief makes one hour ten.
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Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.
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I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation.
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He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting…
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
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There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.
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More Bowels Quotes
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
— Francois Fenelon
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
— Samuel Rutherford
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No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.
— Joan Rivers
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
— Thomas Hobbes
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The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his…
— Truman G. Madsen
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
— John Calvin
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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is…
— Lin Yutang
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
— Abraham Verghese
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Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
— Oliver Cromwell
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Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of…
— William Shakespeare
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog…
— Henry David Thoreau
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