Malhandling Quotes & Sayings

Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets it
in its constellation, and gives the measure
of distance into its hand? Who makes a child's death
out of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves it
inside its round mouth like the core
of a shining apple? Killers are
easy to grasp. But this: death,
the whole of death, before life,
to hold it so softly, and not live in anger,
cannot be expressed. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I already shot my wad on the Protestants! — Gene Siskel

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. — Alexander Pope

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief. — Albie Sachs

I have started to say
"A quarter of a century"
Or "thirty years back"
About my own life. — Philip Larkin

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light. — Lord Byron

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum. — Carl Von Clausewitz