(139 quotes found)
“Daffodils that come before the swallow dares, and takes the winds of March with beauty.”
William Shakespeare
“Don't take another mouthful before you have swallowed what is in your mouth”
African Proverb
“Be careful what you swallow. Chew!”
Gwendolyn Brooks
“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”
Bible
“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
Charlotte Bronte
“The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale”
Thomas Paine
“All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.”
William Blake
“If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it”
William Jennings Bryan
“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.”
Aldo Leopold
“One swallow does not make a summer”
Proverb
