Famous quotes containing the word strike:
“There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,for the root is faith,I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails. If they cannot understand that, they cannot understand much that I have to say.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“This Pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex,
But smothe it heeng as dooth a strike of flex.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?1400)
“If you address a ghost as Thing!
Or strike him with a hatchet,
He is permitted by the King
To drop all formal parleying
And then youre sure to catch it!”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
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