Tin quotes
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"All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
"Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man"
"Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof."
"After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
"Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin."
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"It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines."
"Like a cat on a hot tin roof."
"Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw."
"Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other."
"The path of civilization is paved with tin cans."
"I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either."
"Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart."
"The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything."
"It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence."
"I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine."
"Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?"
"Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good raw, and then put them in tins, and make them revolting."
