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Familiar Quotations

Wild

But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.–Dante Alighieri

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.–Francis Bacon

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?–J. G. Ballard

Why do you lead me a wild goose chase?–Miguel de Cervantes

Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations.–Ralph Charell

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.–Joseph Conrad

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.–Edward Dahlberg

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is and will always be a wild animal.–Charles Darwin

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.–Jimi Hendrix

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.–Mary Elizabeth Hewitt

• Preface xi
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Wild 1
• Wild – "Fierce" 2
• Wild – "Furious" 2
• Wild – "Love" 2
• Wild – "Rude" 2
• Wild – "Violent" 3
• Wild – "Waste" 3
• Wild – "World" 4
• Use in Literature 5
• Wild 5
• Wild – "Above" 19
• Wild – "Air" 19
• Wild – "Alone" 20
• Wild – "Animals" 21
• Wild – "Appeared" 23
• Wild – "Approached" 25
• Wild – "Arms" 25
• Wild – "Around" 26
• Wild – "Bears" 27
• Wild – "Beast" 27
• Wild – "Beauty" 31
• Wild – "Being" 32
• Wild – "Belief" 33
• Wild – "Best" 34
• Wild – "Beyond" 35
• Wild – "Birds" 35
• Wild – "Blood" 36
• Wild – "Blue" 36
• Wild – "Boys" 37
• Wild – "Bright" 37
• Wild – "Broke" 37
• Wild – "Bush" 38
• Wild – "Call" 38
• Wild – "Cares" 39
• Wild – "Cases" 39
• Wild – "Cattle" 40
• Wild – "Change" 41
• Wild – "Children" 41
• Wild – "Close" 42
• Wild – "Come" 43
• Wild – "Confused" 47
• Wild – "Country" 48
• Wild – "Creatures" 51
• Wild – "Cries" 52
• Wild – "Cry" 53
• Wild – "Dance" 54
• Wild – "Danger" 55
• Wild – "Dark" 55
• Wild – "Day's" 56
• Wild – "Death" 59
• Wild – "Deeper" 60
• Wild – "Deer" 61
• Wild – "Delight" 61
• Wild – "Desire" 62
• Wild – "Dogs" 63
• Wild – "Done" 64
• Wild – "Door" 65
• Wild – "Doubtful" 65
• Wild – "Dreaded" 66
• Wild – "Dream" 66
• Wild – "Drove" 68
• Wild – "Ducks" 68
• Wild – "End" 69
• Wild – "Entered" 70
• Wild – "Enthusiasm" 71
• Wild – "Expression" 71
• Wild – "Eyes" 72
• Wild – "Fancy" 77
• Wild – "Far" 78
• Wild – "Father" 78
• Wild – "Fearing" 79
• Wild – "Foot" 80
• Wild – "Felt" 81
• Wild – "Few" 83
• Wild – "Fields" 84
• Wild – "Figure" 85
• Wild – "Fire" 85
• Wild – "Fish" 86
• Wild – "Flight" 87
• Wild – "Flowers" 87
• Wild – "Followed" 88
• Wild – "Force" 90
• Wild – "Formed" 90
• Wild – "Found" 92
• Wild – "Free" 94
• Wild – "Friend" 94
• Wild – "Fruits" 95
• Wild – "Gathered" 95
• Wild – "Geese" 96
• Wild – "Girls" 97
• Wild – "Go" 97
• Wild – "Gone" 99
• Wild – "Grapes" 99
• Wild – "Great" 100
• Wild – "Grief" 102
• Wild – "Grows" 102
• Wild – "Hair" 104
• Wild – "Hands" 105
• Wild – "Happy" 106
• Wild – "Hard" 107
• Wild – "Head" 107
• Wild – "Hear" 109
• Wild – "Heart" 111
• Wild – "Herself" 113
• Wild – "Hide" 113
• Wild – "Hills" 114
• Wild – "Hold" 115
• Wild – "Homes" 115
• Wild – "Hope" 116
• Wild – "Horses" 117
• Wild – "Hour" 118
• Wild – "House" 119
• Wild – "Human" 120
• Wild – "Hunger" 121
• Wild – "Hunted" 122
• Wild – "Ideas" 123
• Wild – "Imagination" 124
• Wild – "Impulse" 125
• Wild – "Intellect" 125
• Wild – "Interest" 125
• Wild – "Intervals" 126
• Wild – "Joy" 126
• Wild – "Keep" 128
• Wild – "Killed" 128
• Wild – "Kind" 129
• Wild – "Lands" 130
• Wild – "Large" 131
• Wild – "Led" 132
• Wild – "Learned" 132
• Wild – "Leaves" 133
• Wild – "Life" 134
• Wild – "Little" 136
• Wild – "Lived" 139
• Wild – "Lonely" 140
• Wild – "Look" 140
• Wild – "Lost" 144
• Wild – "Loved" 145
• Wild – "Made" 145
• Wild – "Men" 149
• Wild – "Manner" 156
• Wild – "Mind" 156
• Wild – "Minutes" 157
• Wild – "Moment" 158
• Wild – "Morning" 160
• Wild – "Mother" 161
• Wild – "Mountainous" 161
• Wild – "Moves" 163
• Wild – "Music" 163
• Wild – "Natives" 164
• Wild – "Nature" 165
• Wild – "Night" 166
• Wild – "Note" 168
• Wild – "Nothing" 169
• Wild – "Number" 170
• Wild – "Oats" 171
• Wild – "Old" 171
• Wild – "Once" 172
• Wild – "Ordered" 173
• Wild – "Party" 174
• Wild – "Passes" 176
• Wild – "Peculiar" 178
• Wild – "People" 178
• Wild – "Perfectly" 179
• Wild – "Pigeons" 180
• Wild – "Place" 180
• Wild – "Plains" 183
• Wild – "Plants" 183
• Wild – "Poor" 184
• Wild – "Present" 184
• Wild – "Raged" 185
• Wild – "Read" 185
• Wild – "Region" 186
• Wild – "Remembered" 186
• Wild – "Rice" 187
• Wild – "Rising" 187
• Wild – "River" 188
• Wild – "Road" 188
• Wild – "Roar" 189
• Wild – "Rose" 189
• Wild – "Ran" 191
• Wild – "Rush" 192
• Wild – "Saddest" 193
• Wild – "Safe" 194
• Wild – "Scene" 194
• Wild – "Scream" 196
• Wild – "Seas" 197
• Wild – "Sense" 198
• Wild – "Shadows" 198
• Wild – "Shall" 199
• Wild – "Sheep" 199
• Wild – "Shot" 200
• Wild – "Shout" 201
• Wild – "Show" 201
• Wild – "Side" 202
• Wild – "Sight" 203
• Wild – "Silent" 203
• Wild – "Sang" 204
• Wild – "Sitting" 205
• Wild – "Sleep" 206
• Wild – "Soil" 206
• Wild – "Song" 207
• Wild – "Soon" 208
• Wild – "Soul" 209
• Wild – "Sound" 209
• Wild – "Spirit" 210
• Wild – "Spring" 211
• Wild – "Started" 212
• Wild – "State" 213
• Wild – "Stones" 214
• Wild – "Stories" 214
• Wild – "Storm" 215
• Wild – "Strange" 216
• Wild – "Stream" 217
• Wild – "Streets" 218
• Wild – "Strength" 219
• Wild – "Stretched" 220
• Wild – "Striking" 220
• Wild – "Strong" 221
• Wild – "Struggle" 222
• Wild – "Studying" 222
• Wild – "Success" 223
• Wild – "Sun" 223
• Wild – "Sweet" 224
• Wild – "Tales" 225
• Wild – "Terror" 225
• Wild – "Thing" 226
• Wild – "Thought" 228
• Wild – "Thus" 231
• Wild – "Times" 232
• Wild – "Tire" 233
• Wild – "Traverse" 233
• Wild – "Trees" 234
• Wild – "True" 235
• Wild – "Truth" 236
• Wild – "Voice" 237
• Wild – "Walking" 237
• Wild – "War" 238
• Wild – "Water" 238
• Wild – "Waving" 239
• Wild – "Way" 240
• Wild – "Weather" 241
• Wild – "White" 241
• Wild – "Wind" 243
• Wild – "Wished" 245
• Wild – "Wolf" 245
• Wild – "Woman" 246
• Wild – "Wood" 246
• Wild – "Words" 247
• Wild – "Worked" 248
• Wild – "Years" 249
• Wild – "Youngest" 250
• Wild – "Youth" 253
• Nonfiction Usage 254
• Lyrical Usage 254
• Script Usage 254
• Historical Usage 258
• Spoken Usage 258
• Presidential Usage 259
• Song Title Usage 259
• Bible Usage 259
• Qur'anic Usage 262
• Journalism Usage 262
• Legal Usage 366
• Encyclopedic Usage 381
• Lexicographic Usage 444
• Index 603