I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
Next to ‘God’, ‘love’ is the word most mangled in every language.
This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out Of dirt. . . It is not possible for the moon To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.
Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap. " The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.