Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old string quotes, string sayings, and string proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Someone 'pulls strings' to obtain employment for another within the same department, and the formerly unemployed person succeeds in getting his/her benefactor fired in order to take the benefactor's place.Jamaican Sayings
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Friends are like fiddle-strings, they must not be screwed too tight.John Ray's proverb
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Hands...which projected like strings upon the finger-board of a violin, and armed with claws like those on the terminations of bats' wings.Theophile Gautier
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Felt like marionette, as though something outside her were jerking the strings that forced her to scream and strike.Jean Rhys
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We're all drawn by wires by puppets, and the strongest wire pulls us in the direction in which we are meant to go.Ellen Glasgow
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Stopped laughing as suddenly as if a string had been broken.Loren D. Estleman
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Explicitness makes matters clear; it takes 300 strings to string 600; unless one explains it, no one understands.Yoruba Proverbs
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One dog does not string decorative beads all around one's waist. Yoruba Proverb
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A person who is like the divining string: unless you throw him down, he will not talk sense.Yoruba Proverb
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You reveler do things in moderation; if the string of life is cut, there is no retrying it.Yoruba Proverb
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But bacon's not the only thing,/ That's cured by hanging from a string.A.E. Housman
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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.Charles Dickens
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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing / Such notes are warbled to the string / Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.John Milton
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Evolution is nothing but a long string of false steps; and it may happened that a severed head will sing.Miroslav Holub
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One Christmas, things were so bad in our house that I asked Santa for a yo-yo and all I got was a piece of string. My father told me it was a yo.Brendan O'Carroll
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It could be said of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other men's flowers, providing of my own only the string that ties them together.Montaigne
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.Henry David Thoreau
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.Pythagoras
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Sitting makes us think of standing / Our current stance keeps on demanding / We wish to fly without the wings / Puppets move before pulling the strings.Munia Khan
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We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.
Craig Groeschel
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As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.Sophie Kinsella
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If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.Anne Lamott
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Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.Pele
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When you cut the strings holding us, you must have been wounded.Arvyn Cerézo
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Recreate life's strings to weave your own path.Diana Matoso
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When you cut the strings holding us. You must have been wounded.Arvyn Cerézo
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If a string has one end, it has another.Gautama Buddha
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Two touch the string, The harp is dumb.Ralph Waldo Emerson