A Quote by Juvenal
A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
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Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.
The thing we adore about these dog-whistle kerfuffles is that the people who react to the whistle always assume it's intended for somebody else. The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.
Travelers with naught sing in the robber's face
I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed
Life is passion, celebration in the face of chaos, light in the face of darkness, hope in the face of despair, and joy, for the universe without life feels nothing, is nothing, and does nothing except slowly die.
When people say “clean as a whistle”, they forget that a whistle is full of spit.
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.
It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.
David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and
learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I
taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It
was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to
whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.'
It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.
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