Top 150 Slender Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.
White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent.
Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.
All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.
The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.
Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.
Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.
In the deep shadow of the porch
A slender bind-weed springs,
And climbs, like airy acrobat,
The trellises, and swings
And dances in the golden sun
In fairy loops and rings.
There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.
The affected modesty of most women is a decoy for the generous, the delicate, and unsuspecting; while the artful, the bold, and unfeeling either see or break through its slender disguises.
In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.
Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
I had to learn how to dress and create an optical illusion where you're more slender.
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.
My slender waist and thighs are exhausted and weak from a night of cloud dancing.
The slender capacity of man's heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God's love toward us.
I don't know if people would be surprised by this or not, but I'm kind of into nutrition and weight lifting. I know I'm kind of a slender man, but the human physique fascinates me, and learning about metabolism.
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
Our books still do not require batteries. But I am no fool. It is a slender advantage.
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
Let guilty men remember, their black deeds
Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.
Whatever stress some may lay upon it, a death-bed repentance is but a weak and slender plank to trust our all on.
International politics attracts politicians who talk a good game, but whose achievements are often slender.
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.
The executioner is, I believe, very expert; and my neck is very slender
At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.
Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.
A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves.
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green.
Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.
Exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn't so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments.
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.
To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
Taxpayers don't want their money spent more than a very, very slender amount on actual buying art or paying for concerts.
The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being more slender on account of their tender years, admit of prettier effects in the way of adornment.
To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
I would be more slender if I didn't eat a bit of chocolate or a cake now and again, but I'm not one of those crazy women who just eat watercress soup - I need to chomp.
A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.
How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.
And to kill time while awaiting death, I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose to the gods.
The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.
