1.
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
2.
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.
Thomas Aquinas
3.
Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer
Saint Augustine
5.
The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.
Andrew Klavan
7.
There will grow from straws a mighty heap.
Ovid
8.
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
Brother Lawrence
10.
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
Thomas Aquinas
11.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
George Herbert
12.
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
Robert E. Howard
13.
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
Susan B. Anthony
14.
Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.
Jenny Han
17.
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
George Herbert
18.
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