Threshed Quotes

#1. Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it threshed another wood.

A.E. Housman

#2. The stars are threshed, and the souls are threshed from their husks.

William Blake

#3. 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

#4. Injustice had made her sulle, and misery had made her ugly.

Victor Hugo

#5. That's the beginning of how it all changes. We become survivors or not.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#6. Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling that you have no culture, because you've been torn between cultures, between incompatible symbols. How can you exist when you don't know where you are?

Muriel Barbery

#7. Can you do it today? Can you make it through today without bingeing? Just today, and tomorrow we'll reconsider?

Andie Mitchell

#8. A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

Dean Alford

#9. Your attitude is your greatest capital in life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. There be some sports are painful, and their labour Delight in them sets off: some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone and most poor matters Point to rich ends. This

William Shakespeare

#11. Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.

Herman Melville