It is an old saying in the town that "most any fellow with a chaw in his jaw can sit on his front porch and spit down the chimney ...of a neighbor's house."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife;... And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Groot: Now wait a minute, Quo. You really ain't gonna take a man's only set of teeth, are ya? Quo: Uh huh.... Groot: Yeah, but I gotta use 'em for eatin'. Quo: Come grub you get 'em. Groot: Whad ya' gonna do with 'em? Quo: My name now Two-Jaw Quo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... when a great burly six feet of masculinity with sloping shoulders and unkempt beard swaggers in, and, throwing a roll of tobac...co into one corner of his jaw, growls out at me over the paper I am reading, "Here gurl," (I am past thirty) "you better git out 'n dis kyar 'f yer don't, I'll put yer out"Mmy mental annotation is Here's an American citizen who has been badly trained. He is sadly lacking in both "sweetness" and "light" ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh,... The zebra strips along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lock-jaw that bends a man's head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his wife and babes, insanity, that makes... him eat grass; war, plague; cholera, famine, indicate a certain ferocity in nature, which, as it had its inlet by human crime, must have its outlet by human suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, I am smitten with a hatchet's jaw; And that in deed and not in word alone.... chorus: I thought I heard a sound within the house Unlike the voice of one that jumps for joy. He splits my skull, not in a friendly way, Once more: he purposes to kill me deadLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nobody who has any kind of creative imagination can possibly be anything but disappointed with real life.... Of course, you could ...always argue that you live more intensely in your mental world-substitute than we who only wallow in the real thing.... But the trouble is that you can't be content to stick to your beautiful ersatz. You have to descend into evening clothes and Ciro's and chorus girls--and perhaps even politics ... with lamentable results. Because you're not at home with these lumpy bits of matter. They depress you, they bewilder you, they shock you and sicken you and make a fool of you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And since our Daintie age, Cannot indure reproofe,... Make not thy selfe a Page, To that strumpet the Stage, But sing high and aloofe, Safe from the wolves black jaw, and the dull Asses hoofe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »