Wrench Quotes 

We are at the classic-romantic barrier now, where on one side we see a cycle as it appears immediately... and this is an important way of seeing it... and where on the other side we can begin to see it as a mechanic does in terms of underlying form... and this is an important way of seeing things too. These tools for example... this wrench... has a certain romantic beauty to it, but its purpose is always purely classical. It's designed to change the underlying form of the machine.
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And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.

Randall Jarrell

— "Variations," lines 40-44

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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

john milton

— To Cyriack Skinner (1655).

Tags: Royal, Bench, British, mean, applause, Pronounced, volumes, our, Laws

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I attempt to describe Mr. Swinburne; and lo! the Bacchanal screams, the sterile Dolores sweats, serpents dance, men and women wrench, wriggle and foam in an endless alliteration of heated and meaningless words, the veriest garbage of Baudelaire flowered over with the epithets of the Della Cruscans.

algernon charles swinburne

— Robert Buchanan, Contemporary Review (October 1871).

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Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside; The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain; And when too short the modish shoes are worn, You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.

john gay

— John Gay, Trivia, Book I, line 33.

Tags: firm, soles, protect, feet, freezing, snows, rains, soaking, sleet

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To uproot an old habit is sometimes a more painful thing, and vastly more difficult, than to wrench out a tooth.


— Samuel Smiles, 19th C Scottish author and reformer. 'Character: The True Gentleman', Self-Help (1856), Ch 13.

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Weep not for little Le  onie Abducted by a French Marquis! Though loss of honour was a wrench Just think how it's improved her French.

Harry Graham

— 1930  More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Compensation'.

Tags: Weep, little, French, Marquis, loss, honour, think, improved

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I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

henry george liddell

— P.29 (Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982))

Tags: think, sorrow, youth, manhood, equalled, intensity, duration, black, hopeless

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