Barnacles Quotes

• Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

  

  William Banting
  • Evil
  • Progress
  • Path

• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Attention
  • Structure
  • Naturalist

• Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

  

  William Collins
  • Democracy
  • Poet
  • Scare