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«Censor: A self-appointed snoop hound who sticks his nose in other people's business»
Author: Bennett Cerf
(Author, Editor, Founder, Publisher)
| Keywords:
hound, self-appointed, snoop, sticks
«Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window»
Author: Steve Bluestone
| About:
Animals,
Dogs
| Keywords:
blow, car, car window, mad, notice, sticks, window
«A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.»
Author: Aesop
(Author, Fabulist)
| Keywords:
binding, bunch, bundle, bundles, bundling, challenged, differ, ease, farmer, for anything, in parallel, in vain, laying, match, My Sons, one by one, parallel, paralleled, pick up, quarrelsome, separate, sons, sticks, The Father, the sticks, undone, untie, untied, untying
«If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.»
Author: Agatha Christie
(Detective, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Principles
| Keywords:
hardly, rigidly, sticks
«I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so s»
«And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.»
«Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
burn, burn up, Coming Home, shuttle, space, space shuttle, sticks