Blow

Famous quotes containing the word blow:

    “If you should put a knife into a French girl’s learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almost finished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)