Corns Quotes & Sayings

You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off. — Jim Thompson

Don't you think baby corns are scary? There's just something wrong about their midget bodies. — P.C. Cast

The reality is that de-carbonisation is not happening fast enough. — Jamais Cascio

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. — Oscar Wilde

My body shakes with a million different fires. Feet that look like yours warp and the corns split so you see craters of infinite variety, some pus-filled Lake Toba. The weakness in my limbs, the thick weight on my head and chest and the slow burning inside me that never reaches the skin, bring me closer to you. My afflictions bring me closer to you. — Jinat Rehana Begum

We are engaged in a struggle that is fought on many fronts and in many forms. — Theresa May

Sometimes He whispers, sometimes He shouts, but God does speak to us through His Word. — K. Kandel

Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you. — Jean Webster

The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the door was frozen solidly shut, and it took about half an hour for a powerful hot-air blower- standard equipment at Siberian airports- to break the icy seal. Stepping outside was like stepping onto another planet, for at those low temperatures nothing seems quite normal. The air burns. Sounds are brittle. Every breath hovers in a strangle slow-motion cloud, adding to the mist of ice that pervades the city and blurs the sun. When the breath freezes into ice dust and falls almost silently to the ground, Siberians call it the whisper of stars. — David K. Shipler

It was the seventeenth-century English who gave corned beef its name - corns being any kind of small bits, in this case salt crystals. — Mark Kurlansky

You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not ask any comer whether he has a name but whether he has an affliction. — Victor Hugo

Rich white Protestant men have held on to some measure of power in America almost solely by getting women, blacks, and other disadvantaged groups to wear crippling foot fashions. This keeps them too busy with corns and bunions to compete in the job market. — P. J. O'Rourke

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer. — Karl Kraus