Quotes with straw

  • Sound as a burrow'd marmot he slept 
 On the straw where he'd tumbled fully-dressed that night.

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  • Remy de Gourmont 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 to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • O. Henry A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Alexander Pope Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bradley Chicho Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
    Bradley Chicho
    English poet
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Adam Mickiewicz Sound as a burrow'd marmot he slept
    On the straw where he'd tumbled fully-dressed that night.
    Pan Tadeusz
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  • Ben Shapiro The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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