Chaff Quotes

44 quotes by 37 authors

Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take… — George Eliot
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all… — George Eliot
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any… — Lord Byron
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing… — Ernest Hemingway
I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all thatâ€™s written well Is written down some useful truth to… — Geoffrey Chaucer
A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth… — Richard Baxter
Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass… — William Matthews
I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you;… — John Keats
An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. — Adlai E. Stevenson
We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. — Dean Stanley
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of… — Arabian Proverb
Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right… — Dinah Mulock Craik
A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of… — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: That say, Let him make speed,… — Bible
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words but to pour them… — George Eliot
Editor: A person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is… — Elbert Hubbard
It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in… — Buddha
If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is… — Edmund Burke

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