Threshed Out Quotes & Sayings

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing the ground of doctrines imagined to be proved, by showing that the evidence on which they were supposed to give rest had no tendency to prove them. — Mary Everest Boole

Those who kow-towed to the prosecution and denounced the Nazi regime got it in the neck just the same. It serves them right. — Herman Goering

Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it threshed another wood. — A.E. Housman

Truth is like a waterslide-only fun when it's slippery and wet. — Bob Dylan

The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks. — William Blake

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head. — Thomas Love Peacock

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing. — Anne Waldman

For, in the same fire, gold gleams and straw smokes; under the same flail the stalk is crushed and the grain threshed; the lees are not mistaken for oil because they issued from the same press. So, too, the tide of trouble will test, purify, and improve the good, but beat, crush, and wash away the wicked. So it is that, under the weight of the same affliction, the wicked deny and blaspheme God, and the good pray to Him and praise Him. The difference is not in what people suffer but in the way they suffer. The same shaking that makes fetid water stink makes perfume issue a more pleasant odor. — Augustine Of Hippo

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists. — Edward De Bono

They pretended they weren't there as guards and Nessilka pretended her goblins weren't being guarded, and everyone was reasonably happy. Thumper — T. Kingfisher