“ Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ”
- Janet Flanner- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
- 672
“ Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. ”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo- Copy
- 3.9K
“ When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. ”
- John B. Bogart- Copy
- 2.7K
“ A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ”
- Herb Caen- Copy
- 1.5K
“ What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoe's laces. ”
- Hitopadesa- Copy
- 3K
“ Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. ”
- Thomas H. Huxley- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts. ”
- Guillaume Apollinaire- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal. ”
- Bishop Robert South- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. ”
- Angus Wilson- Copy
- 2K
“ Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. ”
- Emo Phillips- Copy
- 520
“ The chief thing about a woman — who is much of a woman — is that in the long run she is not to be had… She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation — none of them — not in the long run… ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 3K
“ The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combatted at the public expense, and not fostered. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ”
- Richard Wright- Copy
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