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«There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain's tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.»
«Great Hercules and Samson too Were stronger Men than I or You Yet they were baffled by their dears And felt the distaff and the shears»
«Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.»
«Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.»
«Taxation: how the sheep are shorn»
Author: Edward Abbey (Writer) | About: Taxation | Keywords: shear, sheared, shearing, shears, shorn, taxation
«God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb»
«And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.»
«To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure»
«If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.»
«Great cry and little wool, as the Devil said when he sheared the hogs»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: hogs, sheared, shears, shorn, wool