Quotes of Scavenger - somelinesforyou

“ The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. ”

- Jimmy Buffett

“ For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends. ”

- Robert Brault

“ In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable. ”

- R. H. Hutton

“ War is the great scavenger of thought. It is the sovereign disinfectant, and its red stream of blood is the Condy's Fluid that cleans out the stagnant pools and clotted channels of the intellect. We have awakened from an opium-dream of comfort, of ease, of that miserable poltroonery of "the sheltered life… ”

- Sir Edmund Gosse
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