Straws Quotes
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Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.
William Shakespeare -
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
William Shakespeare
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We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
Tom Stoppard -
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.
Idries Shah -
Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.
Lord Dunsany -
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
Thomas More -
An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper -
What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
Theodore Roethke