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«Let the key guns be mounted, make a brave show of waging war, and pry off the lid of Pandora's Box once more»
«Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. The Bonfire of the Vanities»
«MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.»
«But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of the LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house of the LORD.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: Jehoiada, lid, lids
«A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.»
«The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Cats | Keywords: hot, lid, lids, Sat, stove, The Cat
«We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it / and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again / and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.»
«We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: cigar box, lid, lids