Top 266 Straw Quotes & Sayings

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.

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!

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

You can't blame a match for a house made of straw, Alek.

I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life in a humorous way, the smaller the straw is that you're looking at the map of life. You're not looking at the whole picture. You can't see the whole topography without it, and it can help you to make better choices.

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was most likely to be, but would proceed at once with the feverish diligence of a bee, to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... [J]ust a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety percent of his labor.

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

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Straw purchasing is illegal.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations.

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

Year's end still in straw hat and sandals

Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.

I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw, but it was only one of many. For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the various creatures as straw dogs; the sage is ruthless, and treats others as straw dogs.

Every makeup artist has a straw somewhere on them, pretty much at all times. They're pros, and it's a lot easier to sip things backstage and not mess with your lipstick that way. You learn fast to always ask for a straw when your makeup is done.

I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant. Hardly anyone would believe that it could start a revolution. But I have come to realize the weight and power of this straw. For me, this revolution is very real.

Hatred, like straw, makes for a lumpy mattress.

Oft stumbles at a straw.

I'm the straw that stirs the drink.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

In a long journey straw waighs.

Happiness is a Slurpee and a hot pink straw.

Buy straw hats in the wintertime. Summer will surely come.

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

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

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

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.

Always buy your straw hats in the Winter

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

We had a lot of different personalities. Hoak was the straw boss. He just would not quit.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

The truth is that we're not remaking Sam Peckinpah's 'Straw Dogs,' we're making 'Straw Dogs.' We're taking this story, and we're putting our own spin on it. The mere fact that I have James Marsden in it is an indication that it's a very different film than the one that had Dustin Hoffman in it.

I did not work for a year after 'Margarita With a Straw'.

Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.

Angry and frustrated, the journalists set about making bricks without straw.

There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girl and locked her in a room full of straw and told her to spin it into gold or she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. (Rumpelstiltskin)

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

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.

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.

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw.