Bowels Quotes

• All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Earth, Cash

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• The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Real, Moving, Hero

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin

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• A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Intellectual, Brain

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• I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

  John Calvin

  Defects, Looseness

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.61, Baker Books

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• DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Disorder, Humour

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Mistake, Science, Thinking

  Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10

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• The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his bowels might be filled with compassion," and being now prepared to reach down and help us, he is forbidden because we won't let him. We look down instead of up.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Life, Compassion, Preparation

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• No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.

  Joan Rivers

  Moving, White, Botox

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• If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Pain, Men, Reform

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.55, Xist Publishing

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• We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Fashion, Iron, Machines

  Clemente Orozco V., José Clemente Orozco (2004). “José Clemente Orozco: Graphic Work”, p.5, University of Texas Press

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• Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is!

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Eye, Men, Two

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• Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Heart, Eye, Utterance

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• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

  James Hillman

  Hatred, Black, Patient

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• There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Pride, Men

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• I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Believe, Winning

  Charles Spurgeon (1989). “The Soul Winner”, p.238, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual.

  John Cheever

  Spiritual, Prayer, Smell

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1956.

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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 to it.

  Lin Yutang

  Moving, Unhappy, Ifs

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.

  William Shakespeare

  Worms, Discord, Commonwealth

  William Shakespeare, Michael Taylor (2004). “Henry VI, Part One”, p.167, Oxford University Press, USA

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• How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.

  Dorianne Laux

  Night, Blue, Doors

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• Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

  Howard Nemerov

  Writing, Paper, Firsts

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Believe, Names

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75

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• Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?

  Isaac Newton

  Eye, Men, Wings

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Hard Work, Trust In God, Hard

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• I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; ye must needs have it: all other things, as houses, lands, children, husband, friends, country, credit, health, wealth, honour, may be wanted ; but heaven is your one thing necessary, the good part that shall not be taken from you. See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy; for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory; many are lying dead by the way, that were slain with security.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Letting Go, Country, Children

  "Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters".

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• Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.

  Abraham Verghese

  Mind, Be Careful, Careful

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