Quotes of Puff - somelinesforyou

“ Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. ”

- Unknown

“ And all my kisses on thy balmy lips as sweet,As are the breezes breath'd amidst the grovesOf ripening spices on the height of day:As vigorous too. ”

- Aphra Behn

“ A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose. ”

- John Vance Cheney

“ There she blows! — there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick! ”

- Herman Melville

“ Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses. ”

- Jane Austen

“ A man without decision can never be said to belong to himself; he is as a wave of the sea, or a feather in the air which every breeze blows about. ”

- John Foster

“ Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose. ”

- Unknown

“ Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. ”

- Jane Welsh Carlyle

“ Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude: Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out.". ”

- Jerry Seinfeld

“ Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. ”

- Geraldo Rivera

“ I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there. ”

- George Burns

“ My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath. ”

- Richard Dreyfuss

“ Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. ”

- Dante

“ I had my first puff on a joint when I was twenty-four and a half, and I was petrified. I thought I was gonna see elephants. ”

- James Caan

“ My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. ”

- Claiborne Pell

“ Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small. ”

- Unknown

“ A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up. ”

- Unknown

“ It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them. ”

- L. M. Montgomery

“ I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air. ”

- Carry Nation

“ It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. ”

- Denise Caruso

“ I'm gonna design my own fleet of trailers. No! I'm gonna record an album like Jennifer Lopez. It'll be an acoustic version of K.C. and the Sunshine Band. Then maybe I'll design a line of clothes like Puff Daddy, but all in synthetic fur. ”

- Brad Pitt

“ People think when you get a record deal all your problems will go away. We know that the bigger we get, the more problems we'll have. I guess Puff Daddy was somewhat - what's the word? - prophetic in that respect. ”

- Brad Delson

“ Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house… ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country. ”

- June Jordan

“ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. ”

- The Holy Bible
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