Top 24 Whitewash'd Quotes
#1. The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.
Oliver Goldsmith
#2. O the wind is a faun in the spring time
When the ways are green for the tread of the May!
List! hark his lay!
Whist! mark his play!
T-r-r-r-l!
Hear how gay!
Clinton Scollard
#3. Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. I lacked the knowledge of linear perspective needed to get into the art school, so now I whitewash walls and imagine I'm heaven's landscape painter.
Bauvard
#5. Give me, if you will, prayers;
Or let me know dryness,
An abudance of devotion,
Or if not, then barrenness.
In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,
I find my peace,
What do you want of me?
Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:
What do you want of me?
Teresa Of Avila
#6. The only really wicked men i have ever known were those who started as idealists. that is what depravity feeds on. illusions and idealism and love gone wrong.
Prosper Merimee
#7. But who shall tell how many ages it seemed to this prisoner?
Mark Twain
#8. The world starts with a Big Bang and finishes with a human-made atomic Big Bang!
Javad Alizadeh
#9. Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.
Charles Dickens
#10. Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone's soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. ~ Isadora Conti to Grayson van Court
Riley Shane
#11. If you liked El Salvador, you're going to love Colombia. It's the same death squads, the same military aid, and the same whitewash from Washington.
Carlos Salinas De Gortari
#12. All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Walt Whitman
#13. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
Mark Twain
#15. We must maintain the integrity of the White House, and that integrity must be real, not transparent. There can be no whitewash at the White House.
Richard M. Nixon
#16. Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.
John Grisham
#17. We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.
Jane Fonda
#18. This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.
Isaac Hecker
#19. Our task is not to whitewash nor bloat the truth. Our task is to tell the truth. Period.
Max Lucado
#20. Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. humans appear to have a built-in immune system for threats to their own well-being. If we're about to blame ourselves for bad behavior, our minds intervene with a whitewash.
David DeSteno
#22. Hearst's papers and magazines" were his intended target and promised his speech would clarify that he abhorred "the whitewash brush quite as much as of mud slinging.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#23. The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one's own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
Hannah Arendt
#24. You shouldn't whitewash it. He's good at spin, but he also has a remarkable story, and I'd like to see that it's all told truthfully.
Walter Isaacson
