Bodkin Quotes

#1. And can a man his own quietus make
with a bare bodkin?

D.H. Lawrence

#2. There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

William Butler Yeats

#3. The bodkin, comb, and essence to prepare? For this your locks in paper durance bound, For this with tort'ring irons wreath'd around? 100 For this with fillets strain'd your tender head, And bravely bore the double loads of lead?

Alexander Pope

#4. To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin
That makes calamity of so long life;

Mark Twain

#5. I await the revises, and promise you not to 'make my quietus with a bare bodkin' till I have returned them. After that, I think of retiring. But first I would like to dine with you here. To leave life as one leaves a feast is not merely philosophy but romance.

Oscar Wilde

#6. If dreams were wine, you'd be a sot.

McKenzie Bodkin

#7. Best not to take, yet doubt its strength,
A leash with Demons at its length.

McKenzie Bodkin

#8. In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

Charles Spurgeon

#9. If chess is a vast jungle, computers are the chainsaws in a giant environmentally insensitive logging company.

Nigel Short

#10. There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves.

Vincent De Paul

#11. Love, at its best, wipes commonsense
Away. Much as drops will condense
From hidden liquid in the air,
So, too, do lovers soon compare
Their temp'ratures til, happily,
Their judgement fogs up suddenly.

McKenzie Bodkin

#12. That's me, I'm emotional.

David Wells

#13. The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engineer my way from there.

Natasha Tsakos