Bodies Lawfully Begotten

Famous quotes containing the words bodies, lawfully and/or begotten:

    In time, after a dozen years of centering their lives around the games boys play with one another, the boys’ bodies change and that changes everything else. But the memories are not erased of that safest time in the lives of men, when their prime concern was playing games with guys who just wanted to be their friendly competitors. Life never again gets so simple.
    Frank Pittman (20th century)

    If any man can shew any just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
    Book Of Common Prayer, The. Solemnization of Matrimony, “Exhortation,” (1662)

    My love is of a birth as rare
    As ‘tis for object strange and high:
    It was begotten by Despair
    Upon Impossibility.
    Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)