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Slender Quotes

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

Russell Brand
Sex, Slender, Grammar

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Ezra Pound
Dawn, Slender, Fingers

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

William E. Gladstone
Guarantees, Slender, Scepticism
"Homeric Synchronism : An Enquiry Into the Time and Place of Homer". Book by William E. Gladstone, 1876.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Samuel Johnson
Decay, Disease, Slender
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.81

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very aggressive player. I wanted to be one of the best, but I just ended up as one of the good ones.

Ed O'Neill
Team, Player, Slender

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

Alexandre Dumas
Thread, Slender, Fortune

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

John Henry Newman
Decision, Slender, Evidence
John Henry Newman (1844). “Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief: Preached Before the University of Oxford”, p.290, Aeterna Press

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

Gaspard Ulliel
Sophisticated, Chic, Slender

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Edmund Waller
Slender, Strings, Humans
Edmund Waller (1729). “The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose”, p.9

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Leonardo da Vinci
Truth, Slender, Certainty
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.41, eKitap Projesi

The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Francis Quarles
Debt, Ease, Slender
Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.260

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

Elizabeth Wein
Incredibles, Slender, Thread
Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.212, Egmont UK

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

Charles Brockden Brown
Men, Slender, Accommodations
Charles Brockden Brown (2012). “Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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