“ Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. ”
- St. John Baptist de La Salle- Copy
- 193
“ If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 360
“ EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2K
“ The vice-presidency ain't worth a pitcher of warm spit. ”
- Vice President John Nance Garner- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign. ”
- Cy Young- Copy
- 501
“ It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye. ”
- David Ogilvy- Copy
- 2.5K
“ She was, for all her lifelong love affair with motion pictures, a reporter first. She would skewer her best friend on the greasy spit of scandal if circumstances warranted it. ”
- Paul O’Neil- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ”
- Jim Murray- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
- 821
“ The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.2K
“ In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. ”
- Diogenes of Sinope- Copy
- 151
“ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ”
- Henry Louis Mencken- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Slang is language which takes off its coat, spits on its hands - and goes to work. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
- 1.6K
“ There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 3.3K
“ To the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
- 1.8K
“ You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother… ”
- Chief Seattle- Copy
- 4K
“ The city continues to be a magnet for the best and the brightest that come here from all over the country and all over the world. It's a very vital exciting community. The art world gobbles up people and spits them out the other end and keeps chugging along. ”
- Chuck Close- Copy
- 2.1K
“ For me, all I can do is spit in the eye of my fears by living each day with as much passion and commitment as possible to what truly counts, such as love and justice. To give into the fear and hopelessness would be to declare defeat, something I am not ready to do while there is still the will to struggle. ”
- Lawrence Paradis- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Handshaking is friendly until your hands bleed. Confetti looks festive until you're forced to spit out mouthfuls hurled directly into your face. Applause is wonderful until you can hardly hear yourself speak. A crush of screaming women is flattering until they tear your clothes. ”
- Ralph G. Martin- Copy
- 2.3K
“ For academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit. ”
- Battaille- Copy
- 457
“ This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will… ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
- 3.5K
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