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«When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.»
«The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.»
«The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a war between architecture and painting in which both come out badly maimed.»
«What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.»
«Out of Ireland have we come.Great hatred, little room,Maimed us at the start.»
«Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the LORD, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the LORD.»
«But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: / And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.»
«Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.»
«If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.»
«Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room / The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall; / Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, / Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth: / O God! O Montreal!»