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We've found 29 quotes for 'measuring stick' (0.116 seconds):



"All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own." »Oscar W. Firkins 
"We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough." »Helen Keller 
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in." »Arlo Guthrie 
"Be like a postage stamp. stick to one thing until you get there." »Josh Billings 
"Fall not in love, therefore it will stick to your face." »National Lampoon 
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." »Mark Twain 
"Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt 
"It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it." »Geoffrey F. Albert 
"If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out." »Arthur Koestler 
"Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last." »Jack William Nicklaus 
"It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye." »George Pratt Shultz 
"Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do." »Robert Henri 
"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone." »Dwight D Eisenhower 
"Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again." »Frank Moore Colby 
"Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts 
"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it (On military preparedness)" »Nikita Khrushchev 
"Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong." »Mehmet Murat ildan 
"If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route." »Malcolm Forbes 
"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted." »Eric Idle 
"Why shoudn't truth be stranger than fiction Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities." »Mark Twain 
"If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring." »Christopher Pearce Cranch 
"Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us." »Charles Schwab 
"The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own." »William James 
"I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as to avoid eye pokings to fellow Vikings and lady Vikings." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts 
"Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation." »Andrew Schneider 
"I think a good way to get in a movie is to show up where they're making the movie, then stick a big cactus plant onto your buttocks and start yowling and running around. Everyone would think it was funny, and the head movie guy would say, 'Hey, let's put him in the movie.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts 
"There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt 
"The age of Grace began in mid-Acts, after the conversion of the Apostle Paul. It is through his letters alone that we learn about the dispensation of Grace, about Israel being set aside, with Jew and Gentile being saved into the Body of Christ. It was Paul who taught 'all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses' (Acts 2121). It was also Paul who proclaimed the forgiveness of sins 'to all who would believe' in Christ, adding that 'ye could not be justified by the law of Moses' (Acts 1338-39). The measuring rod of grace tells us that the age of Grace began with Paul, then continued through those who were saved and subsequently carried on His God-given doctrines of grace." »John Fredericksen 
"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period" »Antonio Gramsci 
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