#swell

Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#humor #swelling #humor

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#done #ever #i #life #meaningful

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#automobile #begins #chain #country #distinction

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is growing or swelling. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#either #every #every man #give #growing

Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced. ↗

— Matthew Green

#laced #loosely #maid #swell #talk

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. ↗

— Sholom Aleichem

#poor #pride #rich #swell #up

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#buds #february #leaves #sunshine #swells

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#gone #heart #her #indolent #inspire

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that. ↗

— Joan Didion

#did #eye #feel #go #had

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem? ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#cause #condoms #crisis #doctors #having