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Have you ever tried to split sawdust? -- Eugene McCarthy
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. -- Edith Sitwell
Humor is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt. -- John McKeithen
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust. -- Dale Carnegie
I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company. -- Anita Loos
All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away. -- William Faulkner
The fuel of the future is going to come from fruit like that sumach out by the road, or from apples, weeds, sawdust -- almost anything, -- Henry Ford
Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings / Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings / When ordinary people who are like you and me / Are the builders of their destiny. -- Noel Gallagher
For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is to it as a meal of sawdust to the body; there are no organs for the assimilation of the one more than of the other. -- Charlotte Mason
Where once stood the steadfast pines, great, beautiful, sweet, my hand touched raw, moist stumps. All about lay broken branches, like the antlers of stricken deer. The fragrant, piled-up sawdust swirled and tumbled about me. An unreasoning resentment flashed through me at the ruthless destruction of the beauty that I love. -- Helen Keller
My mouth has gone dry as sawdust. I desperately find Cinna in the crowd and lock eyes with him. I imagine the words coming from his lips. 'What's impressed you most since you arrived here?' I rack my brain for something that made me happy here. Be honest, I think. Be honest. -- Suzanne Collins
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising." -- Charles Dickens
It was like sawdust, the unhappiness: it infiltrated everything, everything was a problem, everything made her cry - school, homework, boyfriends, the future, the lack of future, the uncertainty of future, fear of future, fear in general - but it was so hard to say exactly what the problem was in the first place. -- Melanie Thernstrom
If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable. -- Sheri Holman
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question.../ Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?' / Let us go and make our visit"' 'I'm in love with you,' he said quietly. -- John Green
The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't demand to know "why such things exist." Anyone who understands the world will laugh at you, just as a carpenter would if you seemed shocked at finding sawdust in his workshop, or a shoemaker at scraps of leather left over from work. -- Marcus Aurelius
You're one third bad intentions,one third pure avarice,and one eighth sawdust.What's left,I'll credit,must be brains. -- Scott Lynch
Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple -- Johnny Basham

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