Dry Bones quotes

Dry Bones

8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet

"An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb"

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright

"A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

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Ray Bradbury Author

"Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

"Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?"

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