Cobwebs Quotes

• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Honesty, Ignorance

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

  Mort Walker

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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• Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Law, Break Through

  A Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1709) See Anacharsis 1

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• Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

  Ross Perot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you bring the light into your dark house, that is when you see the cobwebs and spiders

  Rajneesh

  Dark, Light, House

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• The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Powerful, Distance, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2001). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

  George Eliot

  Memories, Mind, Vague

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola: In Two Volumes”, p.105

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• If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Death, Eye, Wish

  Song: If I Close My Eyes Forever

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• Sweep up the debris of decaying faith;
  Sweep down the cobwebs of worn-out out beliefs,
  And throw your soul wide open to the light of reason and of knowledge.
  Be not afraid
  To thrust aside half-truths and grasp the whole.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Light, Soul, Half

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Progress”

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• Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Iron, People, Laziness

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• You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Heart, Dust, Dirt

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from Aug 04, 2013

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• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  Lillian Russell

  Nature, Science, Blow

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• Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

  Denis Waitley

  Practice, Ideas, Layers

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• Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

  Napoleon Hill

  Firsts, Habit, Cables

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• The last cobwebs
  of fog in the
  black firtrees are flakes
  of white ash in the world's hearth.

  Denise Levertov

  Fog, White, Black

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• The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Moss, Doctrine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.289, Library of America

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• As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright And the tangled weeds Bearing a rainbow gem On each of their seeds; So has your love, my lover, Fresh as the dawn, Made me a shining road To travel on, Set every common sight Of tree or stone Delicately alight For me alone.

  Sara Teasdale

  Weed, Stars, Sight

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

  Ross Perot

  Leadership, Business, Engineering

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• The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Business, Men, People

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1097, Delphi Classics

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• We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

  John Fowles

  Wind, Hours, Sunlight

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.

  Catherine Fisher

  Girl, Wise, Wall

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• A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Strain, Cables

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• Some ideas are not born of logic and good sense. They are made of clouds and cobwebs. They sprout from nowhere and feed on excitement, sprinkled with adventure juice and the sweet flavor of the forbidden. The psyche moves from the realms of the ordinary and takes a delicate step towards the unknown. We know we shouldn't and that is exactly why we do.

  Brigid Lowry

  Sweet, Moving, Inspiration

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• Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your cobwebs crazy.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sweet, Crazy, Naughty

  J R R Tolkien (1973). “The Hobbit: The Enchanting Prelude to The Lord of the Rings”

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• I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I didn't feel like an actor anymore. That sounds silly, but when you're doing a play you're using different muscles, and it blew all the cobwebs away.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Silly, Years, Play

  "Matthew Macfadyen (Pride & Prejudice)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. November 10, 2005.

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