“108. A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
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Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and nov… 1913–1995Related quotes
“It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.”
Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 9 (p. 64)
“But metaphor, however poetic, never slaked a dry throat.”
Edgar Rice Burroughs book The Land That Time Forgot
Source: The Land That Time Forgot (1918), Chapter 4
“The original scriptures of most religions are poetical and unsystematic.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Introduction to the Bhagavad-Gita (1944)
Context: The original scriptures of most religions are poetical and unsystematic. Theology, which generally takes the form of a reasoned commentary on the parables and aphorisms of the scriptures, tends to make its appearance at a later stage of religious history. The Bhagavad-Gita occupies an intermediate position between scripture and theology; for it combines the poetical qualities of the first with the clear-cut methodicalness of the second… one of the clearest and most comprehensive summaries of the Perennial Philosophy ever to have been made. Hence its enduring value, not only for Indians, but for all mankind.
Walter P. Stacy (1884–1951) American judge
State v. Beal http://books.google.com/books?id=lEFOAQAAIAAJ&q=%22it+would+be+almost+unbelievable+if+history+did+not+record+the+tragic+fact+that+men+have+gone+to+war+and+cut+each+other's+throats+because+they+could+not+agree+as+to+what+was+to+become+of+them+after+their+throats+were+cut%22&pg=PA302#v=onepage, 199 N.C. 278 (1930).
“Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Variant: Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 9: A View to a Death
““That your solution to everything? Cut somebody’s throat?”
“Always slows them down.””
Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 258)
