(544 quotes found)
“And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat: for unto this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul did eat with Samuel that day.”
Bible
“Counsel is as welcome to him as a shoulder of mutton to a sick horse”
Proverb
“I am putting old heads on your young shoulders...all my pupils are the creme de la creme.”
Muriel Spark
“Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow”
Italian Proverb
“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”
Harold Abelson
“hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back.”
Joan Didion
“Either very curved and shaped to a woman's body or cut straight from the shoulder and boxy and short.”
Calvin Klein
“I say with Didacus Stella, a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself”
Robert Burton
“Engineering consultants shoulder the responsibility to promote energy-efficient and eco-friendly technologies to meet thechallenge of energy over-consumption and environmental deterioration”
Zeng Peiyan
