“The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?”
"Mr. Icky"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
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American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“At breaking the backbone on the people's rights.”
Lunatic. 6
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I see the blind man as the people's guide, the ascetic in his cave a deserter; those who act in the theater of lies I see as dark buffoons. Those who fail I find successful, and progress only backsliding. am I squint-eyed, Or just crazy? Friend, I'm crazy. Look at the withered tongues of shameless leaders, The dance of the whores At breaking the backbone on the people's rights. When the sparrow-headed newsprint spreads its black lies In a web of falsehood
“Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.”
Sand and Foam (1926)
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
This derives from a folk proverb sometimes attributed to Clementine Paddleford, but in use as an "old proverb" as early as 1908, when Paddeford was only 10 years old.
Misattributed
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“My solace and my blessing - unfathomably deep. It is my backbone.”
Source: Broken Lights Diaries 1953-54. Psalm 118
“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
“[R]eligious commitment formed the backbone of much of the North's hostility to slavery.”
Source: 2010s, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012), Chapter One
“He’s as impartial as a herring’s backbone, for he favors neither side and is attached to both!”
Source: Time Cat (1963), Chapter 15 “The Manxmen” (p. 152)