#wallow

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion. ↗

— Sai Baba

#back #becomes #built #foundations #ground

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

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

#either #good #inside #knowledge #life

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. ↗

— Aesop

#chewing #complacency #does #else #get

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ↗

— John Arbuthnot

#last #lies #own #parties #political

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. ↗

— Josh Billings

#cologne #flattery #like #swallowed #water

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

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#bitter #find #flatters #greedily #lie

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#become #ever #happy #hard #i

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#bad game #even #feel #feel good #game