#menace

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband). ↗

— James Thurber

#bed #butler #cope #described #formidable

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

#alleged #avoided #been #ceased #having

It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism. ↗

— Czeslaw Milosz

#experienced #impossible #menace #people #rationalism

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations. ↗

— Pauline Neville-Jones

#clear #come #comes #countries #does

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#industrial #industry #life #menace

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#man #menace #mind #morals #society

The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. ↗

— Josiah Strong

#become #city #civilization #immigrant #menace

Crotch biting menace:I have my mouth in close proximity to your genitals.Oh thou man who talks to my mistress over coffee.Do not irk or trifle with me! I possess but one tooth, oh, yes, for the rest were buried long ago in the flesh of sinners.Behold my jaws, upper and lower in righteous, symmetrical poverty.Move not, man of clocks, and heed my mistress, for she cherishes me, even in my foul old age. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#quote #age

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world. ↗

— Daniel Hecht

#dangerous #menace #power #equality

I don't hafta taste it to know it taste funny. It already looks like it taste funny. ↗

— Dennis the Menace

#funny