Straw Quotes

160 quotes by 145 authors

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. — William Shakespeare
NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few… — Edward Thomas
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble… — Jonathan Swift
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have… — Remy de Gourmont
My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers -… — Steve Sabol
Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk. — Fujiwara no Teika
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God. — Brother Lawrence
Straw purchasing is illegal. — Jason Chaffetz
Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold… — Steve Rasnic Tem
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back. — Brenda Holloway
There are going to be animals in Heaven. The prophet Isaiah said that the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie… — David Berg
Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood. — William Shakespeare
If thou canst walk on water, thou art no better than a straw. If thou canst fly in the air, thou art no better than… — Aziz Ansari
Some say, Life is short. I say; Life is tall-grab a straw! — Sark
'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. — John Dryden
We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass,… — H.G. Wells
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw. — Susan B. Anthony
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. — John Selden
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting. — William Cowper
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. — O. Henry

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