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barb
«There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| About:
Possibility
| Keywords:
barb, barbed, ill nature, malice, witty
«A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.»
Author: Sophia Loren
(Actress)
| About:
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
barb, barbed, barbed wire, dress, fence, fenced in, fence in, fencing, obstructed, obstructing, obstructs, on the fence, serving, The View, view, wire, wired, wires, wiring
«Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? / Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? / Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? / Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? / Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? / Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? / Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? / Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.»
«Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Information
| Keywords:
across, barb, barbed, barbed wire, bordered, bordering, borders, border on, electrified, electrify, electrifying, Information Age, Modern Age, oxygen, The Modern Age, topped, waft, wafted, wafts, walls, wire, wired, wires, wiring
«Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
barb, barbed, earliest, early childhood, ironic, lodged, lodging, pulled, stays
