Funny Double Meaning Quotes & Sayings

We'll be the walls that shield these terrible events from them. We can endure the pain for however long they need to heal. — Krista Ritchie

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was a sitting duck myself, and Arthur had a map of my nerves. — Tobias Wolff

Abused in this way, law becomes a tool - both domestically and internationally - by which the powerful can coerce and control the powerless, rather than a system for ensuring that all are subjected to common rules. Nowhere — Glenn Greenwald

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette

A wise man in his house should find a wife gentle and courteous, or no wife at all. — Euripides

Once upon a time, he might've chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future. — Katherine McIntyre

Unlike all other founders of a religious faith, Christ had no selfishness, no desire of dominance; and His system, unlike all other systems of worship, was bloodless, boundlessly beneficent, and
most marvelous of all
went to break all bonds of body and soul, and to cast down every temporal and every spiritual tyranny. — Alfred William Howitt

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex. — Tom Lehrer

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. — Jean Toomer

IT IS SENSIBLE of me to be aware that I will die one of these days. I will not pass away. Every day millions of people pass away - in obituaries, death notices, cards of consolation, e-mails to the corpse's friends - but people don't die. Sometimes they rest in peace, quit this world, go the way of all flesh, depart, give up the ghost, breathe a last breath, join their dear ones in heaven, meet their Maker, ascend to a better place, succumb surrounded by family, return to the Lord, go home, cross over, or leave this world. Whatever the fatuous phrase, death usually happens peacefully (asleep) or after a courageous struggle (cancer). Sometimes women lose their husbands. (Where the hell did I put him?) Some expressions are less common in print: push up the daisies, kick the bucket, croak, buy the farm, cash out. All euphemisms conceal how we gasp and choke turning blue. — Donald Hall