Straws Quotes

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

Straw purchasing is illegal.

There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

Oft stumbles at a straw.

He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.

You can't make Howard Dean a straw man. He is what he appears to be. And that's the beauty of Howard Dean.

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.