Overstocked Quotes & Sayings

A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors. — Joseph Addison

I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean. — Jasmine Warga

No less instructive is the story, 'Pooh Goes Visiting,' in which Rabbit, having deceitfully offered Pooh admittance to sample his overstocked larder, artfully traps his victim in the doorway and exploits him as an unsalaried towel rack for an entire week. — Frederick C. Crews

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"
that's what they sing. — O. Henry

In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous. — Isaac Asimov

I am standing like shoe polish on an overstocked shelf hoping that one day someone will pick me to make things better. — Buddy Wakefield

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure. — Eva Ibbotson

Me: "Ngh"
Cal: "Well put."
...... Every Boy's Got One — Meg Cabot

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York — O. Henry

Master Li, how are we going to murder a man who laughs at axes?" I asked.
We are going to experiment, dear boy. Our first order of business will be to find a deranged alchemist, which should not be very difficult. China," said Master Li, "is overstocked with deranged alchemists. — Barry Hughart

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages ; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil. — Bertrand Russell

It's not the darkness that's terrifying, it's what you might find in it. — J.M. Darhower

Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and I'm well aware of how complex the situation really was. But it goes without saying is that the West immediately infiltrated and 'derailed' the revolutions, turning them into what you have described. — Andre Vltchek

People get so stressed and nervous and mad. — Kim Clijsters

The highest virtue does nothing. Yet, nothing needs to be done. The lowest virtue does everything. Yet, much remains to be done. — Laozi

We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment. — Randy Pausch

Free is not how many of our citizens feel - with our overstocked medicine cabinets, burglar alarms, vast ghettos, and drug culture. Eighteen hundred New Yorkers are murdered every year by their fellow citizens in a city whose police department is larger than the standing army of many nations. The adventure went sour. — Stanley Hauerwas

Maybe okay will be our always." "Okay, — John Green

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you. — Homer