#menace

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

Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face. ↗

— Karen Chance

#menace #humor

It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#men #menace #men

Skiers view snowboarders as a menace; snowboarders view skiers as Elmer Fudd. ↗

— Dave Barry

#skiers #view

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#bath #being #clean #day #menace

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#air #aircraft #attack #defense #departure

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. ↗

— Brigham Young

#any #community #man #menace #twenty