“Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.”
Bible
“As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“Talk is cheap. What they're engaged in is stirring up a lot of chaff. They've started up their diplomatic fog machine here.”
Sean McCormack
“If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain”
Edmund Burke
“You have to separate the chaff from the wheat”
Proverb
“Don't throw away the wheat with the chaff”
“You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
