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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. -- Oliver Cromwell.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. -- John Calvin
Is God a man with two arms and legs like me? Does He have eyes, a head? Does He have bowels? Well I do, and that makes me more wonderful than He is! -- John Harvey Kellogg
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. -- James Hillman
Satan sent her from the bowels of hell, I should have recognized old Jezebel. -- Alice Cooper
DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels. -- Ambrose Bierce
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains. -- Josh Billings
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. -- Jose Clemente Orozco
If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it. -- Lin Yutang
All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. -- Karl Marx
I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities. -- Charles Spurgeon
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. -- John Crowe Ransom
There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be. -- Joseph Hall
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart. -- Lady Jane Grey
For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. -- William Shakespeare
When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him. -- M. F. K. Fisher
I hate all virtues based on food and bloated bellies; though food and drink are good, I'm better slaked and fed by that inhuman flame which burns in our black bowels. I like to name that flame which burns within me God! -- Nikos Kazantzakis
In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. -- Bruce Lee
There is no place like it, no place with an atom of its glory, pride, and exultancy. It lays its hand upon a man's bowels; he grows drunk with ecstasy; he grows young and full of glory, he feels that he can never die. -- Walt Whitman
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord. -- Henry David Thoreau
We praise Him, we bless Him, we adore Him, we glorify Him, and we wonder who is that baritone across the aisle and that pretty woman on our right who smells of apple blossoms. Our bowels stir and our cod itches and we amend our prayers for the spiritual life with the hope that it will not be too spiritual. -- John Cheever
claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe. -- Joseph Conrad
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him. -- Charles Lamb
The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion. -- Mark Twain
I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world. -- Alison Goldfrapp
We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines. -- Jose Clemente Orozco
We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. -- Peter Bergman
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart. -- Lady Jane Grey
Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. -- Johnny Galecki
Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open. -- Oliver Cromwell
Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels. -- Abraham Verghese
No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face. -- Joan Rivers
Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. -- William Shakespeare
To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels. -- Clive Barker
Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels. -- Thomas Browne
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. -- Oliver Cromwell.
I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit. -- Mason Cooley
All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels. -- Francois Fenelon
Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him. -- Herman Melville
Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man. -- Thomas Hobbes
[T]here is an inverse correlation between the cleanliness of a bathroom and my 3-year-old daughter's need to move her bowels. -- Ayelet Waldman
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. -- William Shakespeare
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes! -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper. -- Howard Nemerov
I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. -- Geraldine Brooks
May not subterraneous fire be considered as the great plough (if I may be allowed the expression) which Nature makes use of to turn up the bowels of the earth~? -- William Dean Hamilton
We leave Pippa behind, standing in the dark, teeming bowels of the camp, while the sun begins to stain the sky electric, and from all sides the guns draw closer. -- Lauren Oliver
The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker. -- Arthur W. Pink
We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water. -- Winston Churchill
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers all because their treacherous sin causes them to lose control of their bowels. -- Gordon Klingenschmitt
Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house. -- Susan Stroman

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