Quotes of Delve - somelinesforyou

“ Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Well said: that was laid on with a trowel. - As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. ”

- John Wanamaker

“ We are the only ones who really can care about the preservation Foreigners who come to excavate, maybe some of them care about preservation, but the majority care about discoveries. ”

- Zahi Hawass

“ They can hold a shovel and work at digging and feel like they're participating. They can pull on the plants to pull 'em out of the container. They really do help as much as they can help. ”

- Pam Brown

“ All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. ”

- Michael Ende

“ Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks. ”

- P.G. Wodehouse

“ It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it. ”

- Gertrude Jekyll

“ I think it just looks absurd for us constantly to shovel out tax breaks when executives go on television and say they aren't needed,... They don't need tax incentives. ”

- Ron Wyden

“ Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune. ”

- Saint Basil

“ Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well. ”

- Charles Dudley Warner

“ Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel. ”

- J. A. Dever

“ I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. ”

- Sir John Denham

“ I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realised that I had dug my own grave. ”

- Dominic

“ When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ”

- Unknown

“ Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune. ”

- St. Basil

“ The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. ”

- James Baldwin

“ The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? ”

- John Ball
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