#swallow

So you wound up with Apollo. If he's sometimes hard to swallow. Use this. ↗

— Paul Newman

#hard #sometimes #swallow #up #use

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ↗

— Plato

#death #last #must #swallowed #things

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#colleges #far #go #swallowing #up

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat. ↗

— A. J. Jacobs

#body #call #fat #goat #i

Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#during #end #i #i tried #me

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you. ↗

— Victor Kiam

#business #competition #keep #running #stand

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. ↗

— Hank Ketcham

#chewing gum #enjoy #flattery #gum #like

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#john-grey #sapphire #swallowed #diet

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#chewed #digested #few #others #some

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening. ↗

— Richard Blackmore

#breeze #dreamed #flitting #flowers #fluent