An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down


George Eliot

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Every ass loves to hear himself bray
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Nay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, He'll bray you in a mortar.
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He who lives with an ass, makes noises like an ass
AFRICAN PROVERB
St George he was for England, / And before he killed the dragon / He drank a pint of English ale / O...
G. K. CHESTERTON
Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? or loweth the ox over his fodder? / Can that which is uns...
BIBLE
O, that he were here to write me down an ass! -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
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If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him
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He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place wh...
PROVERB
Bray Wyatt is one of the most captivating characters to come down the pike in ages.
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God, give me a rich husband though he be an ass
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If an ass goes travelling he will not come home a horse.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig
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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
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An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
ROMANIAN PROVERB
Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.
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AESOP
If only no one had to fight at all." He shakes his head.
"It does no good to dream.
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William Weld is running because he is bored. Eliot Spitzer is running to make a difference.
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While you're saving your face, you're losing your ass.
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I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
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By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.
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An illiterate king is a crowned ass
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We've never done this before, ... We don't know if it will work. We may carry your ass all the way o...
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I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
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Law is an ass, an idiot.
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How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.
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He told us he drove around aimlessly for a while before finally going to Mount Lemmon.
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He does have a unique kind of charisma. He out-movie stars the movie stars.
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For God hates utterly
The bray of bragging tongues.
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Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a hi...
GEORGE ELIOT
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come t...
GEORGE ELIOT
Breed is stronger than pasture.
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Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
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We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: th...
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Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires ...
GEORGE ELIOT
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
GEORGE ELIOT
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same in...
GEORGE ELIOT
What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
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The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
GEORGE ELIOT
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
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My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measu...
GEORGE ELIOT
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputat...
GEORGE ELIOT
I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
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I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them...
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The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is...
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Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fow...
GEORGE ELIOT
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our eg...
GEORGE ELIOT
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of...
GEORGE ELIOT
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up.
GEORGE ELIOT
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous
GEORGE ELIOT
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us
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Hear Everything and judge for yourself
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Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.
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Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while...
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh th...
GEORGE ELIOT
There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere...
GEORGE ELIOT
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
GEORGE ELIOT
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoug...
GEORGE ELIOT
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
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