Straw Quotes

160 quotes by 145 authors

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For… — Joseph Conrad
Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost. — Margaret George
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers. — Abraham Lincoln
The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and… — Texas Bix Bender
A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with… — Justus von Liebig
'This is how democracy works,' Barack Obama lectured the country before giving everyone the specifics of his expansive one-man executive overreach on immigration. If you… — David Harsanyi
One of the reasons we think this market will start to run out of gas at some point is that you've essentially created as much… — Scott Simon
Herman Cain is probably well-liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party, conservative movement and tea party… — Janeane Garofalo
In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few… — Winston Churchill
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold. — Coleman Young
You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most… — Alison Krauss
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw. They will have… — Winston Churchill
Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's… — Fred Barnes
Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary's finger. The palm that held the… — Max Lucado
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has… — Thomas Aquinas
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow… — Dorothy Day
ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof… — Ambrose Bierce
The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw… — Henry David Thoreau
A faith in culture is as bad as a faith in religion; both expressions imply a turning away from those very things which culture and… — C.S. Lewis

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