"It seemed, indeed, to Phineas that as Mrs. Low was buckled up in such triple armour that she feared nothing, she might have been less loud in expression her abhorrence of the enemies of the Church. If she feared nothing, why should she scream so loudly?"

"If, in proportion as our minds are enlarged, our hearts purified, and our consciences cultivated, our abhorrence of wrong and aversion to it increases, what must be the moral indignation of the infinite and holy God against wrong-doers?"

"Men in general are so constituted that there is nothing they will endure with so little patience as that views which they believe to be true should be counted crimes against the laws. … Under such circumstances they do not think it disgraceful, but most honorable, to hold the laws in abhorrence, and to refrain from no action against the government."

"Make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close."

"The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen."

"There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself."

"I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory."

"Satan had his companions, fellow devils, to admire and encourage him, but I am solitary and abhorred."

"Your arrogance in your manhood prevents you from understanding."

"A man who only becomes a husband brings pain to his parents, and a man who only becomes a son brings pain to his wife."

"more abhorr'd Than spotted livers in the sacrifice."

"few things loves better Than to abhor himself."

"How abhorred in my imagination it is!"

"Boils and plagues Plaster you o'er, that you may be abhorr'd Further than seen."

"To a clergyman lying under a vow of chastity any act of sex is immoral, but his abhorrence of it naturally increases in proportion as it looks safe and is correspondingly tempting. As a prudent man, he is not much disturbed by incitations which carry their obvious and certain penalties; what shakes him is the enticement bare of any probable secular retribution. Ergo, the worst and damndest indulgence is that which goes unwhipped. So he teaches that it is no sin for a woman to bear a child to a drunken and worthless husband, even though she may believe with sound reason that it will be diseased and miserable all its life, but if she resorts to any mechanical or chemical device, however harmless, to prevent its birth, she is doomed by his penology to roast in Hell forever, along with the assassin of orphans and the scoundrel who forgets his Easter duty."

"He who has ever turned with abhorrence from the skeleton of a beast which has been picked whole by birds or vermin, must confess that habit alone could have enabled him to endure the sight of the mangled bones and flesh of a dead carcase which every day cover his table."

"The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle—their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man."

"What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories."

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence."

"Here was, perhaps, only another instance of mankind's abhorrence of actualities; and man's quaint dislike of facing reality was here disguised as a high moral principle."

"We not only do not believe that any are foreordained to evil by the power of God, but even state with utter abhorrence that if there are those who want to believe so evil a thing, they are anathema."

"The self-same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for."

"But disguise of every sort is my abhorrence."

"Citius venit periculum, cum contemnitur."

"Caret periculo qui etiam tutus cavet."

"It is no jesting with edge tools."

"Il n'y a personne qui ne soit dangereux pour quelqu'un."

"Contemptum periculorum assiduitas periclitandi dabit."

"Scit eum sine gloria vinci, qui sine periculo vincitur."

"Sur un mince chrystal l'hyver conduit leurs pas, Telle est de nos plaisirs la legere surface, Glissez mortels; n'appuyez pas."

"Ægrotat Dæmon; monachus tunc esse volebat, Dæmon convaluit; Dæmon ante fuit."

"Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for … the destruction that wasteth at noonday."

"'Twas a dangerous cliff, as they freely confessed, Though to walk near its crest was so pleasant, But over its terrible edge there had slipped A Duke and full many a peasant, So the people said something would have to be done, But their projects did not at all tally. Some said: "Put a fence round the edge of the cliff." Some: "An ambulance down in the valley.""

"Multos in summa pericula misit Venturi timor ipse mali."

"Quid quisque vitet nunquam homini satis Cantum est in horas."

"Periculosæ plenum opus aleæ Tractas, et incedis per ignes Suppositos cineri doloso."

"For all on a razor's edge it stands."

"Quo tendis inertem Rex periture, fugam? Nescis heu, perdite! nescis Quem fugias; hostes incurris, dum fugis hostem. Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim."

"Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern."

"Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall."

"In summo periculo timor misericordiam non recipit."

"The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be; But when he got well, a wolf once more was he."

"Anguis sub viridi herba."

"We have turned into highly dangerous beings, capable of threatening the lives of many beings and our own survival."

"Time flies, Death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens."

"Qui legitis flores et humi nascentia fraga, Fridigus, O pueri, fugite hinc; latet anguis in herba."

"It's dangerous to have fashion and power."

"Si cadere necesse est, occurendum discrimini."

"Insufficient facts always invite danger."