Famous quotes containing the word unwholesome:
“A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and withal the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby.... The man is now a man.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.”
—Charles Lamb (1775–1834)
“All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind
With whistler’s cough contages, time on track
Shapes in a cinder death; love for his trick,
Happy Cadaver’s hunger as you take
The kissproof world.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)