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  • Pessimists are just as illogical as optimists; insomuch as both envisage the aims of mankind as unified, and as having a direct relationship (either of frustration or of fulfilment) to the inevitable flow of terrestrial motivation and events. That is - both schools retain in a vestigial way the primitive concept of a conscious teleology - of a cosmos which gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitos, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy.

    Dog   Horse   Motivation  
    Letter to James F. Morton (1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 483), 1996.
  • A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

    Men   Lice   Add  
  • I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

    Book   People   Style  
  • Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

    People   Grace   Ignorant  
  • Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.

    Men   Merit   Doe  
  • Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either

    Egypt   Names   Creating  
    Martin Luther, Desiderius Erasmus, Ernest Gordon Rupp, Philip Saville Watson (1969). “Luther and Erasmus: Free will and salvation”, Westminster John Knox Press
  • To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.

    Truth   Believe   Science  
  • I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.

    Lice   Harem  
  • There is a cultural taste which tries very hard to get rid of the lice in a fur coat. There is another which tolerates the lice and thinks the coat can be worn with them in it. And finally there is a taste which regards the lice as the most important thing about the coat and consequently places the coat at the lice's disposal.

    Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
  • Love is a delicate plant that needs constant tending and nurturing, and this cannot be done by snorting at the adored object like a gas explosion and calling her friends lice.

    Love Is   Needs   Calling  
    P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Bertie Wooster Sees It Through”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
  • I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.

    Children   Home   Lice  
  • Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.

    Funny   God   Humorous  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.

    Lice   Matter   Way  
    "Conscience and Memory: Meditations in a Museum of the Holocaust". Book by Harold Kaplan, p. 29, 1994.
  • Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.

    Sick   Juice   Tissues  
  • Stu walked Bennie over to Chris in the chair and parted his hair to reveal some tan little creatures the size of poppy seeds moving around on his scalp. Bennie felt himself grow faint.'Lice' the barber whispered.'They get it at school'. 'But he goes to private school' Bernie had blurted.'In Crandale,New York!

    Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.24, Anchor
  • A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

    Art   Lice   Acts Of Love  
  • They don't live here. They live in Heaven.' Where's that?' I don't know,' I said. 'Enos says it's right here, on this side of the wall, but I never saw an angel over here. Kuba says it's in Russia. Olek says Washington America.' What's Washington America?' Enos says it's a place with no wall and no lice and lots of potatoes.

    Wall   Angel   Russia  
    Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.136, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • How many brave Men, courageous Women, and innocent Children did I see butcher'd, to do God good Service?. .. I went to the Irish Rebellion, where I saw more than three hundred thousand Souls murder'd in cold Blood.crying, Nits will become Lice, destroy Root and Branch: with a thousand other Barbarities, too tedious as well as too dreadful to repeat, beside what has been transacted abroad.

    Children   Women   Blood  
  • There are stories about winter ghosts found tangled like lice in their lovers' hair. Dead people have no hair themselves, which is how they can be recognized in winter. But in summer, the living and dead may pass each other on the street, and no one knows the difference.

    Summer   Winter   Hair  
    Kelly Link, Shelley Jackson (2005). “Magic for Beginners”, p.60, Small Beer Press
  • People are like lice - they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can't get permanently deloused.

    Blood   People   Skins  
    Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr
  • We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

    Writing   Sheep   Needs  
    Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.3, Anchor
  • In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.

    Gun   Light   Cities  
    Source: progressive.org
  • Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

    Lice   Monkeys   Way  
    Reynolds Price (2000). “Tongues of Angels: A Novel”, Scribner
  • in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

    School   Doors   Hip Hop  
  • The best part of chronic head lice is it takes away your fear of dying alone.

    FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Jul 25, 2013
  • If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.

    Ideas   Lice   May  
  • Lice have been with us and evolving with us for as long as we have existed.

    Long   Lice   Evolve  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Life is an extravagant gown, riddled with lice.

    Gowns   Lice   Life Is  
  • L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?

    Regret   Loss   Men  
  • Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

    Nfl   Political   Jam  
    "The Perils of Political Paralysis". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 14, 2013.
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