Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

— Benjamin Franklin

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour…

— Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes no matter how well you prepare, no matter how conservative your decision making, no matter how few Y chromosomes are along on your…

— Pam Houston

The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as…

— Patience Strong

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd,…

— William Shakespeare

I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex…

— Jeffrey Dahmer

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked,…

— Steven Wright

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white…

— Julia Child

“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.…

— Vera Nazarian

He will hear the rain before he feels it, a clicking on the dry grass, on the olive leaves.

— Michael Ondaatje

Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was…

— Cassandra Clare

When the fountains of government [borrowing] abundance began to dry up, when through lack of funds and the impossibility of negotiating fresh loans the…

— John T. Flynn

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of a harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

— Anonymous

Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone…

— Tituss Burgess