Actual Bodily Harm

Famous quotes containing the words actual, bodily and/or harm:

“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)