Cudgel Quotes

#1. Faith is a personal matter, and should never be a cudgel to stifle inquiry. We tried that approach about 1,200 years ago. The experiment was called the Dark Ages.

Seth Shostak

#2. If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

Plutarch

#3. God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting up the rays of science in a fellow's head whose skull is impervious and inaccessible by any other way than a positive fracture with a cudgel.

Robert Burns

#4. What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Boris Pasternak

#5. Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.

Colette

#6. Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?

Alex Pareene

#7. Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

Honore De Balzac

#8. cudgel! That's worth thy trouble,

Jacob Grimm

#9. One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?

Franz Schubert

#10. The golden fleece of self-sufficiency guards against cudgel- blows but not against pin-pricks.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Some people will always think they know how to make other people's marriages better, and, after a while, they'll get to cudgeling you or selling you something; the really entrepreneurial types will sell you the cudgel.

Jill Lepore

#12. There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#13. Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent
all depending on who wields it and how.

Steven D. Levitt

#14. The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

Jane Porter

#15. Jeanne de Chantal, seventeenth-century founder of the Order of the Visitation, said, No matter what happens, be gentle with yourself.

Shane Claiborne

#16. War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

Catherynne M Valente

#17. The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Stevie Smith

#18. The two best things you can do for a person is have sex or make them laugh.

Chris Rock

#19. Healing through the mind can work harmoniously with medicine.

Rhonda Byrne

#20. I loved working on '90210,' and I liked playing Ozzy because he was different from everybody else. And it was great because I got a great fan base.

Michael Trevino

#21. My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.

R. Tripp Evans