Girth Quotes

• My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change.

  William Banting

  Tailors, Medical, Proof

  William Banting (2005). “Letter on Corpulence”, p.52, Cosimo, Inc.

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• We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

  Edgar Fawcett

  Earth, Praise, Grass

  Edgar Fawcett (1891). “Songs of Doubt and Dream (poems)”

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• With a cigar like in life, you got to have some length, and some girth.

  D. L. Hughley

  Cigar, Length

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• Permítanme ponerlo de esta manera. Según mi circunferencia, debería ser una secuoya de noventa pies.

  Erma Bombeck

  Feet, Way, Redwoods

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons.

  Ernest Hemingway

  War, Yellow, White

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• El árbol que necesita dos brazos para abarcar su circunferencia surgió del brote más pequeño. Yon torre, nueve pisos de altura, se levantó de un pequeño montículo de tierra. Un viaje de mil millas comienza con un solo paso.

  Laozi

  Success, Journey, Two

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• Cuando consideramos los períodos débiles y sin nervio de algunos literatos, que tal vez en pies y pulgadas alcanzan el nivel de su raza, y no son deficientes también en circunferencia, nos asombramos del inmenso sacrificio de los músculos y tendones. Estas proporciones, estos huesos... ¡y este su trabajo! Manos que podrían haber derribado un buey han cortado esta frágil materia que no habría sido tarea de los dedos de una dama. ¿Puede ser esto obra de un hombre robusto, que tiene un tuétano en la espalda y un tendón de Aquiles en el talón?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Sacrifice, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to attempt to define it, to try and fight it all at once, is impossible. The only way to combat it is by fighting specific wars in specific ways.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Fighting, Our World

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• The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.

  Christina Rossetti

  Life, Flower, Shadow

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.185, Delphi Classics

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• Se dice que cuando los modales son licenciosos, una revolución está siempre cerca: la virtud de la mujer es la principal cincha y venda de la sociedad; porque un hombre no acumulará un patrimonio para los niños más que mientras los crea suyos.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sexo, Niños, Creer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). "Emerson en sus diarios", p.373, Harvard University Press.

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• It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Fear, Real

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• The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as "Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?" But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.

  Jean Marzollo

  Pregnancy, Men, Wife

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• Like this cake. It’s really very good. (Arik) As the girth to my hips will attest. (Geary)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cake, Hips, Very Good

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• La primera vez que vi un cocodrilo casi vomito. No es natural que algo llegue a ser tan grande. Tiene diez pies de largo y tres pies de circunferencia. No es una creación de Dios como tú y yo. Algunos dicen que no le temen a los caimanes. Mentira. Mira esa cosa. Es grande y malvada. Nos tragaría a los dos. Esa gente dice que no tiene miedo de decir mentiras.

  Bukka Blanco

  Mentir, Mal, Pies

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• Ahora mismo estoy centrado en mi nuevo álbum, que saldrá probablemente hacia el verano, predominantemente R&B esta vez. Tuve una pequeña temporada con la música de baile y todo eso, con lo que me lo pasé muy bien -y me encanta el público, les quiero por aceptar que lo haga-, pero tuve que volver a casa con esto. Tenía que volver a mis raíces, lo que no quiere decir que no haya una o dos canciones que puedan gustar al público dance, pero la mayoría, la mayor parte del álbum, será R&B".

  Ne-Yo

  Song, Home, Roots

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• Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her socks, the top of her head not quite reaching Jake's chest. What she lacked in height she made up for in girth. Jeffrey guessed she was at least a hundred pounds overweight. Standing side by side, the Valentines looked like the living embodiment of the number ten.

  Karin Slaughter

  Valentine, Feet, Numbers

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