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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." »Mae West
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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." »Dorothy Parker
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients." »Oscar Levant
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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them." »Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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"A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver." »Eleanor Hamilton
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"A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out." »Samuel Johnson
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"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me." »Woody Allen, Annie Hall
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"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?" »Elbert Hubbard
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"A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." »Samuel Johnson
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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress." »George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
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"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away." »Sir Arthur Helps
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"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." »Woody Allen
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"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." »Woody Allen
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"Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety." »George Bernard Shaw
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"If you injure a harmless person, the evil will fall back upon you, like light dust thrown up against the wind." »Buddhist
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"If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow." »Ruth Gordon
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"The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion." »The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
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"I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a clod, a morsel of putrid atoms that should be thrown to the dungheap, ready for the nethermost pit. Nor if I did should I therefore expect to sit with Angels and Archangels." »Anthony Trollope
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"If nations could overcome the mutual fear and distrust whose somber shadow is now thrown over the world, and could meet with confidence and good will to settle their possible differences, they would easily be able to establish a lasting peace." »Fridjof Nansen
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"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." »George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
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"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second." »Helen Hunt Jackson
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"I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck-and more, if there are some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay-and better yet if the branches catch at the hay, and some of it tumbles to the road." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko
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"The honor of my race, family and self is at stake. Everyone is expecting me to do big things. I will. My whole body and soul are to be thrown recklessly about the field. Every time the ball is snapped, I will be trying to do more than my part...Fight low, with your eyes open and toward the play. Watch out for crossbucks and reverse end runs. Be on your toes every minute if you expect to make good. Jack." »Jack Trice
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