Straws Quotes

• Some say, Life is short. I say; Life is tall-grab a straw!

  Sark

  Life Is Short, Life Is, Tall

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• It doesn't matter if the glass is half full or half empty. I am gonna drink it through this crazy straw.

  Joey Comeau

  Crazy, Glasses, Half

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• Why don't I drink from a straw? Because straws are for suckers.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Drinking, President, Politician

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• A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.

  Demetri Martin

  Eye, Looks, Idiot

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• Blend all ingredients. Drink with probiotic straws to maximize the benefits of a healthy diet and support normal absorption and assimilation of nutrients in the gut.

  Mehmet Oz

  Support, Healthy, Benefits

  Source: www.today.com

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• 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

  Integrity, Argument, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 4, l. 53

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• It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

  Charles Dickens

  Adversity, Camels, Lasts

  Charles Dickens (1855). “Household Words”, p.59

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• Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,
  Begin it with weak straws.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Haste, Weak

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.27

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• In a long journey straw waighs.

  George Herbert

  Journey, Long, Long Journey

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.355

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• I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

  Reggie Jackson

  Yankees, Drink, New York Yankees

  Reggie Jackson, Kevin Baker (2013). “Becoming Mr. October”, p.97, Anchor

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• Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

  Aesop

  Wind, Way, Shows

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• You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Crazy, Humor

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• A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

  Thomas More

  Hope, Men, Drowning

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• If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to drink your milkshake... I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Rooms, Drink, Milkshakes

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• There will grow from straws a mighty heap.

  Ovid

  Accumulation, Grows

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• The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Air, Dashboards, Sitting

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• Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

  Jonathan Swift

  Block, Men, Want

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.614

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• Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.

  Michael Mullen

  Running, Cutting, Trying

  "Success in Parenting — Avoiding the Happiness and Self-Esteem Traps" by Ellen Galinsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2012.

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• The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state....The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Baby, Block, School

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• When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

  Jud Wilhite

  Want, Steps, Slave

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• Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Knees

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• I want the cheesy dates at the movies, the stupid walks at the beach and sharing straws in a cup

  Tyler, The Creator

  Beach, Stupid, Cheesy

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• We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

  Anna Kamienska

  Men, Drowning, Stills

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• Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Reasoning, Premises, Floats

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Most people spend their lives building financial houses of straws, which are susceptible to wind, fire, rain and big bad wolves.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Rain, Fire, Wind

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