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Stools Quotes

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.1032, Delphi Classics

I've never trusted toadstools, but I suppose some must have their good points.

"Fictional character: Cheshire Cat". Video Game "Alice", www.imdb.com. 2000.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

"Jane Fonda, Fitness Guru, Reveals What Inspires Her In Origin Magazine Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Mark Twain (2015). “Pudd'nhead Wilson”, p.30, Xist Publishing

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 113-114, Gargantua, Book I, ch. II, 1922.

Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

"Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.

"Not My Job: Singer Trisha Yearwood Gets Quizzed On Unhappy Couples". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. February 27, 2016.

You've got to stand as you exist. You can change the height of the podium to accommodate your height, but you cannot have a stool. You cannot have footstool or any of that.

"Monday Night Debate Drama: What Should Trump Do If Hillary Coughs?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 23, 2016.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.190, Graphic Arts Books

When there's a piano to be moved, don't reach for the stool.

H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.255, Thomas Nelson Inc

To go where the King goes afoot (i.e. to the stool).

George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.182