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«Order is a lovely thing; on disarray it lays its wing, teaching simplicity to sing.»
«If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of»
«I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
animal, Better Late Than Never, bores, eggs, good egg, good idea, hatches, hatching, hole, In My Head, later, lays
«It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.»
Author: Muriel Spark
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bad weather, continuously, depressed, Dirty Mind, Hearts of, heavier, inwardly, lays, mockery, mood, One Fine Day, Secrets of, snivel, sniveling, sympathetically, tormented
«It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.»
Author: Margaret Thatcher
(Politician, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
cock, cock up, crows, eggs, hen, lays, The Eggs
«It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
| About:
Evil,
Law and lawyers
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according, arranges, free spirit, free state, lays, presuppose, presupposes, scope, spirits, wickedness
«He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say. He is impelled by inertia, rather than curiosity, and nothing is more unlike the submissive apathy with which he hears his fate revealed than the alert dexterity with which the man of courage lays hands on the future.»
Author: Walter Benjamin
(Essayist, Theologian, Writer)
| Keywords:
alert, dexterity, forfeits, fortune teller, fortune tellers, impel, impelled, impels, inertia, intimation, intimations, lays, submissive, tellers, unwittingly
«Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs»
«Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
as yet, exercises, influence, lays, The Law
«It is a no good hen, that cackles in your house and lays in another's»
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