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.
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
Brother Lawrence
8.
There will grow from straws a mighty heap.
Ovid
10.
He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.
George Herbert
11.
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
13.
He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."
Thomas Aquinas
14.
In good yeares corne is hay, in ill yeares straw is corne.
George Herbert
15.
Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.
Robert E. Howard
16.
Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.
Susan B. Anthony
17.
Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.
Jenny Han