Cobwebs Quotes

54 quotes by 50 authors

Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of… — John Updike
I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven. — Augustus William Hare
Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine. — Lillian Russell
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon… — Myrtle Reed
Cartier-Bresson has said that photography seizes a 'decisive moment', that's true except that it shouldn't be taken too narrowly...does my picture of a cobweb in… — Paul Strand
Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things. — Edward Abbey
Friend, many and many a dream is mere confusion a cobweb of no consequence at all. Two gates for ghostly dreams there are: One gateway… — Homer
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs. — George Eliot
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen… — Denis Waitley
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desksâ€”cutting loose debris that's impeding… — David Allen
A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away. — Robert Genn
Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains — Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet
The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and… — William Hazlitt
The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences… — Swami Vivekananda
It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just as good as… — Henry Ward Beecher
Looking at the world through the sunset in your eyes, traveling the train through clear Moroccan skies. Ducks and pigs and chickens call, animal carpet… — Graham Nash
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the… — Francis Bacon
Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer… — Denis Waitley
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's… — Adriana Trigiani
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something… — Raymond Chandler

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