Quotes of Straw - somelinesforyou

“ Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. ”

- Bible

“ Why are we surprised when fig trees bear figs? ”

- Margaret Tead

“ Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig. ”

- Bhagavad Gita

“ I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. ”

- Boss Tweed

“ Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. ”

- J. Robert Moskin

“ Italian wine was something rough and red that came in a straw-covered flask with a candle stuck in its neck, the empty bottle was an unmistakable badge of sophomore sophistication. ”

- Nancy Harmon Jenkins

“ Guido clung to this thought like a drowning man clutching at a straw. He was rich and famous now, he told himself, and wasn't that what he'd always dreamed of? ”

- Michael Ende

“ To conjure up such ridiculous questions, the answers to which we all know or should know are in the negative, is to build up a whimsical and farcical straw man which is not only grim but Grimm. ”

- Tom C. Clark

“ I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair. ”

- Joseph Conrad

“ If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than a fly. Conquer thy heart that thou mayest become somebody. ”

- Unknown

“ Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. ”

- Chamfort

“ A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. ”

- O. Henry

“ If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search… I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. ”

- Nikola Tesla

“ I came home one day, took off my windbreaker, and three bindles of cocaine fell to the floor.Well, my dog Chili, who has short hair, came in and laid on her back with her legs in the air, and she rubbed all my cocaine on her back and side.So I got a straw and I started brushing her hair and snorting where I saw cocaine. ”

- Gary Busey
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