Straws Quote by Samuel Hopkins Adams Download Open image “Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.” — Samuel Hopkins Adams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Straws Tails
“A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, But the stump thunk the skunk stunk.” — Riley Weber Copy Share Image
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Basically, there are three ways the skunk and I are a lot alike. The first is, we both like to spread our "stink" around.… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
It's like fishing -- you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off… — Dusty Baker Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it. — Lloyd Doggett Copy Share Image
The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
According to the estimate of a prominent advertising firm, above 90 per cent, of the earning capacity of the prominent nostrums is represented by… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Success: a marvelous stimulant, bubbling with inspiration and incitement. But for all except the few who are strong and steadfast, there lurks beneath the… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
The ordinary run of advertising is nothing more than an effort to sell something by yelling in print. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
You never get bored ... when you have the probabilities of your next meal to speculate on, pro and con. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession. — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze. — Andrew Klavan Copy Share Image
It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
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… — John Donne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it. — Helen Waddell Copy Share Image
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me." — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
