
While the Cauldron Bubbles.
"Spider Quotes"
maritalbliss
at 5:58PM, May 29, 2007
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maritalbliss
at 6:00PM, May 29, 2007
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.
—Anacharsis
I've also seen this version:
“Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.”
—Anacharsis
—Anacharsis
I've also seen this version:
“Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.”
—Anacharsis
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maritalbliss
at 6:00PM, May 29, 2007
A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.
—Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
—Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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maritalbliss
at 6:01PM, May 29, 2007
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
—Alan Davies
—Alan Davies
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maritalbliss
at 6:03PM, May 29, 2007
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
—William Blake, (YES! William Blake!)
—William Blake, (YES! William Blake!)
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maritalbliss
at 6:05PM, May 29, 2007
“The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.”
—Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
—Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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maritalbliss
at 6:06PM, May 29, 2007
“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.”
—Ethiopian Proverb
—Ethiopian Proverb
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maritalbliss
at 6:07PM, May 29, 2007
Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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maritalbliss
at 6:07PM, May 29, 2007
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
—John Dryden
—John Dryden
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maritalbliss
at 6:08PM, May 29, 2007
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maritalbliss
at 6:11PM, May 29, 2007
“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”
—Paul Eldridge
—Paul Eldridge
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maritalbliss
at 6:11PM, May 29, 2007
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
—Henry James
—Henry James
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maritalbliss
at 6:12PM, May 29, 2007
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”
—Virginia Woolf
—Virginia Woolf
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maritalbliss
at 6:13PM, May 29, 2007
“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”
—Alexander Pope
—Alexander Pope
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maritalbliss
at 6:14PM, May 29, 2007
“Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. (Job 8:14)”
—The Bible
—The Bible
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maritalbliss
at 6:15PM, May 29, 2007
“Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.”
—Henry Fox
—Henry Fox
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maritalbliss
at 6:16PM, May 29, 2007
“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”
—John Keats
—John Keats
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maritalbliss
at 6:16PM, May 29, 2007
“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”
—Tryon Edwards
—Tryon Edwards
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maritalbliss
at 6:18PM, May 29, 2007
“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”
— Edwin Way Teale
— Edwin Way Teale
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maritalbliss
at 6:20PM, May 29, 2007
“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Spider Man's mantra.
Spider Man's mantra.
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