Famous quotes containing the words body, lawfully and/or begotten:
“I know that I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“Our passional nature not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds; for to say, under such circumstances, Do not decide, but leave the question open, is itself a passional decisionjust like deciding yes or noand is attended with the same risk of losing the truth.”
—William James (18421910)
“My love is of a birth as rare
As tis for object strange and high:
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility.”
—Andrew Marvell (16211678)