Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law."
Sawdust quotes
Sawdust
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky"
Eugene McCarthy
Politician
"Have you ever tried to split sawdust?"
Henry Ford
Industrialist
"The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust - almost anything."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit."
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"All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away."
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"It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising.""
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