Famous quotes containing the words tooth, disease and/or type:
“Nature, red in tooth and claw.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, Id be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
—Lenny Bruce (19251966)
“This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life, never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)