Quotes of Stool - somelinesforyou

“ As if Misfortune made the Throne her Seat, And none could be unhappy but the Great. ”

- Nicholas Rowe

“ Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ”

- James Montgomery

“ I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to beKobe Bryant. ”

- Kobe Bryant

“ Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart. ”

- Aubrey Thomas de Vere

“ Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones. ”

- Herbert Kaufman

“ I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan. ”

- Kareem Abdul Jabbar

“ I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them. ”

- Emo Philips

“ He who placed me in this seat will keep me here. ”

- Elizabeth I

“ I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth. ”

- Roger Maris

“ Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool. ”

- Arthur Keith

“ For there are set thrones of judgment, the thrones of the house of David. ”

- Bible

“ And he drave them from the judgment seat. ”

- Bible

“ Courage is the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. ”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“ The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people. ”

- Charlie Shedd

“ The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair. ”

- Mary Heaton Vorse

“ Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well. ”

- Bruce Paltrow

“ Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them. ”

- Albert Hubbard

“ The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates. ”

- Warren E. Burger

“ Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. ”

- Richard Cecil

“ Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them. ”

- Curtis Grant

“ The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary — or a stool. To stumble over and vex you… "curse that stool!" Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake… ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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