(319 quotes found)
“It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A narrow neck keeps the bottle from being emptied in one swig.”
Irish Proverb
“To fake it is to stand guard over emptiness”
Arthur Herzog
“You must empty a box before you fill it again”
Irish Sayings
“I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.”
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.”
William Kennedy
“A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.”
Luigi Pirandello
“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”
Benjamin Whichcote
“My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.”
Ian Fleming
“With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.”
Charles Churchill
