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Babe Quotes

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Franz Kafka (2016). “Konundrum: Selected Prose of Franz Kafka”, p.354, Archipelago

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.273, Ballantine Books

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.

George Gascoigne, Roger Pooley (1982). “The green knight: selected poetry and prose”, Carcanet Pr

A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.

William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.495, Univ of California Press

Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols.

Marshall McLuhan, W. Terrence Gordon, Elena Lamberti, Dominique Scheffel-Dunand (2011). “The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man”, p.208, University of Toronto Press