LOWS are sarcasms turned stupid.
George Eliot, Felix Holt.
HEY grieved for those who perished with the cutter,
And also for the biscuit-casks and butter.
Lord Byron, Don Juan.
OCIAL arrangements are awful miscarriages;
Cause of all crime is our system of marriages.
Poets with sonnets, and lovers with trysts,
Kindle the ire of the Positivists.
Husbands and wives should be all one community:
Exquisite freedom with absolute unity.
Wedding-rings worse are than manacled wrists—
Such is the creed of the Positivists.
Mortimer Collins, The British Birds.