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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. -- Frederick Buechner
The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them. -- Fanny Kemble
You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket. -- Jude Law
I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief. -- Anne Sullivan
You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve. -- Jeff Foxworthy
All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. -- LeRoy Pope Walker
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. -- Cyril Connolly
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. -- Louis J. Camuti
Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties? -- Brad Meltzer
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. -- Mark Twain
I was going to buy my girl a Packard car for Christmas, but it took too long to deliver, so I bought her some handkerchiefs. -- Jack Benny
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. -- Compton Mackenzie
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers? -- Orson Scott Card
My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them. -- Laura Linney
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.' -- Jude Law
I had seen the damp lying on the outside of my little window, as if some goblin had been crying there all night, and using the window for a pocket-handkerchief. -- Charles Dickens
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring. -- Carl Sandburg
A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented. -- Rachel Maddow
If one has not heard Wagner at Bayreuth, one has heard nothing! Take lots of handkerchiefs because you will cry a great deal! Also take a sedative because you will be exalted to the point of delirium! -- Gabriel Faure
Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. -- Lizzie Andrew Borden
Ivy waved her wet handkerchief, as much as to say 'words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress'. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, "Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. -- Gail Carriger
...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, orshut a door, when the lady could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative. -- Herb Caen
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a man hits his wife. A profound sadness settled over the earth...God was silent in every language. The angels tried to dry their tears, but their handkerchiefs were so soaked through that is started raining even in the deserts. -- Guus Kuijer
When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. -- Roman Payne
When she was a child, my love carried a road map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. -- Roman Payne
Once upon a time there were three little foxes Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes. -- A. A. Milne

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