Straw Quotes

160 quotes by 145 authors

And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasionâ€¦You must… — Richard Baxter
For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the… — C.S. Lewis
If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning? — Herman Cain
That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor… — Hesiod
The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make… — Jane Stanton Hitchcock
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw. — Carol Ann Duffy
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees,… — John Donne
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the… — Martin Luther
I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a… — P.G. Wodehouse
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest. — Jack Dee
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw. — Jonathan Swift
I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant.… — Masanobu Fukuoka
After my husband died, I felt like one of those spiraled shells washed upon the beach... Poke a straw through the twisting tunnel, around and… — Lynn Caine
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something… — Joe Bob Briggs
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder,… — Alexander Pope
But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant — William Wordsworth
Sweep the garden, any size, said the roshi. Sweeping, sweeping alone as the garden grows large or small. Any song sung working the garden brings… — Olga Broumas
When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the… — Rory Bremner
People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man instead.… — Madsen Pirie

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