Famous quotes containing the words cut and/or rib:
“You may cut off the heads of every rich man now livingof every statesmanevery literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Though shoulder, bosom, lip, and knee
Are praised in every kind of art,
Here is loves true anatomy:
His rib is gone; hell have her heart.”
—John Hollander (b. 1929)