Quotes About Walking Sticks

#1. Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.

Margaret Mead

#2. But if intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to sharpen it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies - to use it as cats use stealth, as walking sticks use camouflage, to make it the tool of our survival.

Carl Sagan

#3. The feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers
all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.

Dave Barry

#5. using parking meters as walking sticks.

Tom Waits

#6. Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

Luka Sulic

#7. A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

John Arlott

#8. Walking a dog is a lesson in the simplicities of happiness, but you need to throw sticks to get maximum benefit from the lesson.

Steve Fowler

#9. Referees don't come down here with a particular flavoured shirt on.

Steve Coppell

#10. Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

Kobayashi Issa

#11. I nod, trying to get the image out of my head of Raffe dancing to some rock song. possibly buck naked.

Susan Ee

#12. Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.

Charles Lamb

#13. The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

#14. The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them.

Markus Zusak

#15. Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear like the second coming of Batman, sitting in your little cars full of mechanized fear as you reach for your little radios at the first sign of anything more worrisome than a jaywalker.

Steven Brust

#16. He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.

Waqar Younis

#17. The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.
-Rick Ridgeway

Susan Magsamen

#18. You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?

Dan Barker

#19. Arnie has more people watching him park the car than we do out on the course.

Lee Trevino

#20. No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

H.L. Mencken

#21. When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything ... And all rites are of this kind.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#22. This advice from a college freshman carrying a cane?"

"It's a walking stick, I'll have you know."

"Same difference."

"Hardly. It's fashion.

Danika Stone