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«When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.»
Author: Margaret Turnbull
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
catastrophe, catastrophes, looks, meets, mirror, on the road, purse, pursed, purses
«Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than it does now that salesmen fly through the air. What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? How will the heirs of this age be taught the most basic motions that are necessary to activate the most complicated machines? Nature can rely on progress; it will avenge it for the outrage it has perpetrated on it.»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
activate, activated, activates, celebrates, Flying machine, mail, ooze, oozed, oozes, oozing, perpetrate, perpetrated, perpetrates, purses, salesmen, traveling salesman
«Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.»
«Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, / Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.»
«The best way to keep loyalty in a man's heart is to keep money in his purse.»
«Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor: For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
darkest, garments, meanest, purses
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