Famous quotes containing the word cripple:
“The cripple tardy-gaited night,
Who like a foul and ugly witch doth limp
So tediously away.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“How comes it that a cripple does not offend us, but a fool does? Because a cripple recognizes that we walk straight, whereas a fool declares that it is we who are silly; if it were not so, we should feel pity and not anger.”
—Blaise Pascal (16231662)
“There are knives that glitter like altars
In a dark church
Where they bring the cripple and the imbecile
To be healed.
Theres a woden block where bones are broken,
Scraped cleana river dried to its bed”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)
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