Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along but I am the river it is a tiger that devours me but I am the tiger it is a fire that consumes me but I am the fire.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Finance like time devours its own children.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Obscenity which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food which it devours in secret.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.