The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action. — Aaron Burr Copy Share Image
You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it.… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday,… — Penelope Keith Copy Share Image
Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he thinks. But this is a common failing. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant. — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
You will be favorable to Burr, and so must fail, because the American reader cannot bear a surprise. He knows that this… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?” “Duh,” I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,” he… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing,… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty. — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
