Straw Quotes
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Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.
— William Shakespeare
There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
— Jack Straw
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
— Edmund Spenser
If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshakeit's a glass of ice cream. — Bill Maher
Hey, new girl. You know the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the same thing as the last straw?
— Stephanie Danler
I'm a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants
— Charles Dickens
Why cry over dried flowers?They're meant to be straw.
Why cry over miniature roses?
They're meant to be small. — Marilyn Chin
There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
There was a young lady of Lynn. Who was so uncommonly thin That when she essayed To drink lemonade, She slipped through the straw and fell in.
— Catherine Coulter
Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home. — Carol Rifka Brunt
Genna: "My straw has a hole in it!"Tim: *gives her a Really? look*
Genna: "One that it's not meant to have! — Timmothy Radman
We don't know," Gansey said, around his straw. "Why is the tea so good here?""I spit in it. Let me see this thing. — Maggie Stiefvater
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
— Susan B. Anthony
It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. Holding
— Justin Cronin
While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger
— Jack Straw
How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it.
— Virginia Woolf
And fetch some straw.We'll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn't sleep soft tonight."
"Straw. I love luxury. — Joanna Bourne
You can be as great a man as you please while you're alive. Makes not a straw of difference once you go back to the mud. And
— Joe Abercrombie
You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.
— Howard Dean
A rather jolly little pony, quite possibly wearing a straw hat with holes cut out for its ears.
— Terry Pratchett
I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow. — Shannon Hale
Year's end still in straw hat and sandals
— Matsuo Basho
Grab a big straw and suck it up.
— Shawn Garrett
Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.
— Bernard Baruch
And the nightmare-monster of her childhood revealed itself to be a thing of old clothes stuffed with straw.
— Mercedes Lackey
Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.
— Harry Styles
Andy and Terry went into the kitchen to serve out the Neapolitan (which we called van-choc-straw . . . funny how it all
— Stephen King
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.
— Frederick Lenz
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
— William Cowper
It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls.
— Bernard Cornwell
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
— Thomas More
Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.
— Abraham Lincoln
a lack of boldness on our part probably isn't due to a lack of interest from the organization.
— Julie Straw
In a long journey straw waighs.
— George Herbert
If the defendant be a man of straw, who is to pay the costs?
— Charles Dickens
The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex - not that which never has divined it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.
— Margaret George
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
— Charles Dickens
If Adie wanted to drink her blood and could give her the answers she needed, Tori would provide the straw herself.
— Bethany K. Lovell
The English as a race are not worth saving!
— Jack Straw
Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding all provide effective weed control in my fields.
— Masanobu Fukuoka
Ignorance and virtue suck on the same straw...
— Gabriel Thy
I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw.
— Thomas Aquinas
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
My goal is not to win a straw poll that doesn't mean something. It's to win the election that means everything for the future of the country.
— Mike Huckabee
What is desire?The impulse to make someone else complete?
That woman would set sodden straw on fire. — Theodore Roethke
Parking garages are like that person drinking their soda with a straw: They just sit there and suck.
— Gregor Collins
Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.
— Jenny Han
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
— George Herbert
Straw met camel's back. Breaking commenced.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Won't say anything, won't burst into tears and buckle under the weight of this last, awful straw.
— Laura Wiess
Companions are we, enlivened by a mighty gallop quickly sliding a harsh straw basket of sea foam gathered astride the tide.
— Bradley Chicho
If the tea party is so racist, how come when they have straw polls the black guy keeps winning?
— Herman Cain
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
— Jonathan Swift
But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant
— William Wordsworth
A straw can crush you, if you let it.
— Marty Rubin
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
— Coleman Young
Why would I draw the short straw?
— Kresley Cole
He was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade ...
— Robert McCammon
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
— Alexander Pope
It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
— George Herbert
A bloody guy in overalls, wearing a straw hat, began chasing us. He held a saw, pointing it at us. We were gonna die! --The Body By the Tree
— Yawatta Hosby
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
— Brenda Holloway
When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.
— Rodney Dangerfield
Why should one live? All is vain! To live- that is to thresh straw; to live- that is to burn oneself and yet not get warm.-
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Getting started is the most difficult thing to do; once you file it out, they rest of the journey is as soft as the straw. Be a good beginner.
— Israelmore Ayivor
'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
There was always something in me to catch fire, in this heap of straw that I have been.
— Franz Kafka
And he that strives to touch the starsOft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser
That was not only the final straw but the entire pile of hay.
— Cherise Sinclair
I felt an absurd urge to ask, Can you sell me a nice summer straw hat, or should I just go fuck myself?
— Stephen King
The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.
— Martin Luther
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 at a straw.
— Jonathan Swift
If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.
— Alan Rogers
Stress can wear away at you for a long time, and the last straw can be the smallest thing.
— Joshua Guess
A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.
— Peter Cave
Mister Straw hat is going to be an enemy of mine but even a bond of enmity is still a bond.-Trafalgar Law
— Eiichiro Oda
Always buy your straw hats in the Winter
— Benjamin Graham
Hatred, like straw, makes for a lumpy mattress.
— Karen Kijewski
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
— George Herbert
Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
