Gird up your loins like a man; I will question you, and you declare to me. Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me ...that you may be justified?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So-called "austerity," the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path.... "Pull in your belt" is a slogan closely related to "gird up your loins," or the guns-butter metaphor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the... Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humility; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat no...t of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou broughtest us into the net; thou laidst affliction upon our loins. Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went throu...gh fire and through water; but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since to the awe of thy imperious wit Our troublesome language bends, made only fit... With her tough thick-ribbed hoops to gird about Thy giant fancy, which had proved too stout For their soft melting phrases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We hear much of chivalry of men towards women; but ... it vanishes like dew before the summer sun when one of us comes into compet...ition with the manly sex. Let a woman sit, weep, wring her hands, and exult in her own helplessness, and the modern knight buckles on his imaginary breastplate and draws his sword in her behalf; but when the woman girds up her loins for the battle of life, ready to fight like a lioness, if need be, to put food in the mouths of her children, let her select for her field the living-room or the cooking range.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe my ardour for invention springs from his loins. I can't say that the brassiere will ever take as great a place in histor...y as the steamboat, but I did invent it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea,... Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »