#wallow

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.' ↗

— Alvah Bessie

#cat #him #right #said #swallowed

We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda? ↗

— Judith Jamison

#agenda #badly #create #go #going

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

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#hippopotamus #me #mud #soar #wallow

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it. ↗

— George Savile

#cheated #chew #endure #ever #man

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#banned #because #been #bees #disappeared

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

— Hank Ketcham

#chewing gum #enjoy #flattery #gum #like

I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#caeser #christ #christianity #confucius #consume

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

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

— Josh Billings

#cologne #flattery #like #swallowed #water