Broom Quotes
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I think we are all frightened a little bit when a new broom starts to sweep.
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
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The Blessed Virgin used me like a broom, and then put me back in my place.
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A broom is drearily sweeping up the broken pieces of yesterday's life.
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A new broom can sweep the floor, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.
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On wet days I will go into the thickest parts of the forest, where the pine needles are everlastingly dry, and when the sun shines I'll lie on the heath and see how the broom flares against the clouds. I shall be perpetually happy, because there will be no one to worry me.
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Do you want to be great? Pick up a broom and sweep the floor.
