Marble Quotes
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Much rain wears the marble.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
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The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
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He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
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When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.
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I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless.
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Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.
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Washington was not just a city of marble buildings and smoke-filled rooms and power brokers, but also a town full of people who do care about each other, in good times and bad.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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To say she was attractive would be an understatement. Calling her 'attractive' would be like calling the Taj Mahal a marble grave.
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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
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A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some people go through school as if they thought they were doing their families a favor. On a job, they work along in a humdrum way, interested only in their salary check. They don't have a goal. When anyone crosses them up, they take their marbles and walk out. The people who go places and do things make the most of every situation. They are ready for the next thing that comes along on the road to their goal. They know what they want and are willing to go an extra mile.
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I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.
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Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
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Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
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A closed mouth gathers no foot. A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
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Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker -- as soon as you have lost all your marbles.
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Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
