Thimble Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's…
— Margaret Atwood
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You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a…
— Carolyn Wells
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Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble
— Warren Buffett
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Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble
— Remy de Gourmont
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Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your…
— Mother Angelica
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The universe will fill your cup... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble!
— Sonia Choquette
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
— Ramakrishna
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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.
— Warren Buffett
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You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise…
— Max Lucado
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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
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I…
— Lincoln Steffens
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I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.
— Don DeLillo
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....
— Pablo Neruda
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And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found…
— Alice Sebold
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Peter,†Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?†“Of course,†Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.†“No,†said Ashley, staring, “That was a…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool,…
— Marisha Pessl
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That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble!
— Sid Waddell
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What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.
— Wilford Brimley
Who Wrote These Thimble Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Thimble Quotes as follows: