Locks Quotes
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The waters of the Ganga are roaring among His matted locks.
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Alike were they free from Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics. Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows; But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners; There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Part I, section 1
Her sunny locks Hang on her temples like a golden fleece.
— Bassanio, scene i
Thou can'st not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me.
william shakespeare— Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 49.
Thy boist'rous locks, no worthy match For valour to assail, nor by the sword * * * * * * But by the barber's razor best subdued.
john milton— John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), line 1,167.
Thou canst not say I did it: never shake Thy gory locks at me.
— Macbeth, Scene IV
John Anderson my jo, John, When we were first acquent; Your locks were like the raven, Your bonie brow was brent; But now your brow is beld, John, Your locks are like the snaw; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. Burns
Robert Burns— 1790 'John Anderson my Jo', stanza1. 1788 'Auld Lang Syne', stanza1. This is the most familiar version of an older, traditional song, reworked by Burns.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.
john milton— 1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.
The laughing dames in who he did delight, Whose large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands, Might shake the saintship of an anchorite.
Rochdale— 1812-18 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto1, stanza11.
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
George Bernard Shaw— 1903 DonJuan. Man and Superman, act 3.
Prisons are a growth industry in a country that has stopped building schools because we would rather not pay our property taxes. And we seem remarkably comfortable with a criminal-justice system that locks up and "disappears" people we fear or hold in contempt — with prisons as closets to hide our unmentionables and as factories for processing spare human parts until there is nothing left but waste.
john leonard— "An Extreme Danger to Society", New York Magazine (7 May 2007)
The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'
robert ley— Leipzig, 1939. Quoted in Robert Ley: Hitler's Labor Front Leader - Page 24 - by Ronald Smelser - 1988
He laid his hand upon "the Ocean's mane,"And played familiar with his hoary locks.
robert pollok— Book iv, line 689. Compare: "And I have loved thee, Ocean! ... And laid my hand upon thy mane,—as I do here", Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818), Canto IV, st. 184.
"You are old, Father William." the young man cried,"The few locks which are left you are grey;You are hale, Father William—a hearty old man:Now tell me the reason, I pray."
Robert Southey— The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them, st. 1 (1799).
Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have many stays,Long demurs breed new delays.
robert southwell— "Loss in Delay", line 13; p. 60.
Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it.
ludwig wittgenstein— Ch. 9 : Philosophy, p. 175Variant: Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.Conversation of 1930, in Personal Recollections (1981) by Rush Rhees, Ch. 6
Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.
P. J. O'Rourke— As quoted in Busted : Stone Cowboys, Narco-lords, and Washington's War on Drugs (2002) edited by Mike Gray
His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth ’gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.
George Peele— Polyhymnia (1590), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
With head upraised, and look intent, And eye and ear attentive bent, And locks flung back, and lips apart, Like monument of Grecian art, In listening mood, she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.
walter scott— Canto I, stanza 17.
Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
gerry spence— Ch. 6 : The Power of Prejudice : Examining the Garment, Bleaching the Stain, p. 74
Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre, Sprinckled with perle, and perling flowres atweene, Doe lyke a golden mantle her attyre.
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion, Stanza 9.
However successful a man may be in his own business, if he turns from that and engages ill a business which he don't understand, he is like Samson when shorn of his locks his strength has departed, and he becomes like other men.
— P. T. Barnum, 'Beware of Outside Operations', The Art of Money Getting (1880).
We also concluded that any single-machine locks and keys, or special time-out and self-destruct programs, would be onerous to our best customers and not effective against clever thieves. Because we could not devise practical physical security measures, we had to rely on the inherent honesty of our customers.
— Watt S. Humprey on IBM's decision against copyprotection for software in 1969 [22]
O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces.
— J. G. Percival—Anacreontic, Stanza 2.
Where go the poet's lines? Answer, ye evening tapers! Ye auburn locks, ye golden curls, Speak from your folded papers!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet's Lot, Stanza 3
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
George Bernard Shaw— Man and Superman.
John Anderson, my jo, John, When we were first acquent, Your locks were like the raven, Your bonny brow was brent.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, John Anderson.
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes: Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
— Second Witch, Scene I (Act IV)
That which the world miscalls a jail,A private closet is to me.* * * * *locks, bars, and solitude together met,Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.
— Attributed to Sir Roger L'Estrange. Also to Lord Capel. Found in the New Foundling Hospital for Wit (Ed. 1786), IV. 40, as a supplementary stanza. See Notes and Queries (April 10, 1909), p. 288
