Stools Quotes

• When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

  Chinua Achebe

  Doors, World Suffering, Thought Provoking

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 26, 2011

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• Savor the throne, but don't mind the stool.

  Steve Winwood

  Mind, Thrones, Adages

  Song: Take It as It Comes

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• Even at my lowest I was sittin on my high stool.

  Joe Budden

  Lowest

  Song: Better Me *

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• One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

  Francois Rabelais

  Fall, Two, Trying

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• I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Lucky

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• The trial of a case is a three-legged stool - a judge and two advocates.

  Warren E. Burger

  Two, Judging, Judgement

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• Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Laughter, Player

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 404 (1775)

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• A balanced life is like a three legged stool. Each leg - nutrition, fitness and wellness- is necessary and supports the other.

  Ellie Krieger

  Support, Life Is Like, Three

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• At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Makeup, Sweaters, Missing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.52, Penguin

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• If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you.

  Richard Branson

  Up To You, Want, Cows

  Sir Richard Branson (2011). “Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life and Business”, p.79, Random House

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• Necessity invented stools,
  Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
  And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

  William Cowper

  Luxury, Elbows, Lasts

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.159

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• I got two stools, in case I want to sit down and sit down again on something else.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

  Isabel Allende

  Phones, People, Want

  "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

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• So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.

  Buddy Guy

  Men, Years, Here I Am

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• I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.

  Waylon Jennings

  Beer, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Out Of Jail

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• I've always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it's always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing - and that's it!

  Lea Michele

  Artist, Voice, Piano

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• Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Writing, Long, People

  Isobelle Carmody, Nan McNab (2011). “The Wilful Eye (Tales from the Tower Volume One)”, p.3, Allen & Unwin

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• I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Son, Fire, Hands

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• I took the stool next to him, raising an eyebrow at the coffee and cruller on the counter. "Thought you weren't into internal pollution," I said. Lately Ranger'd been on a health food thing. "Props," Ranger told me. "Didn't want to look out of place." I didn't want to burst his fantasy bubble, but the only time Ranger wouldn't look out of place would be standing in a lineup between Rambo and Batman.

  Janet Evanovich

  Coffee, Eyebrows, Would Be

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Catharsis comes from the ancient Greek word...which literally translated means 'to pass a hard stool'

  Tim Sandlin

  Mean, Greek, Catharsis

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• Hope is a leg of a 3-legged stool with Faith and Charity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Charity, Legs

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• I like to think of climate action as a three-legged stool.

  David Titley

  Thinking, Climate Action, Three

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Between two stools one sits on the ground.

  Francois Rabelais

  Two, Decision

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 113-114, Gargantua, Book I, ch. II, 1922.

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• Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fall, Two, Culture

  Salman Rushdie (2012). “Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991”, p.12, Random House

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• I wish my daughters would box. I'm so worried about the guys coming up to them. I would love them to be able to smack a guy right off a bar stool.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Daughter, Guy, Wish

  "Stallone's daughters make history as first Miss Golden Globe sister act". www.foxnews.com. January 5, 2017.

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