The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze. — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it. — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me." — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes, And hold-fast is the only dog. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there: If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames.… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary's finger. The palm… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ...… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw,… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector,… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
