Following is our list of the most famous thimble quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational thimble quotes. Hopefully, these thimble quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your thimble knowledge!
The human hand is made complete by the addition of a baseball. — Paul Dickson
In the house of the blacksmith, a wooden knife — Spanish Proverbs
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. — William Blake
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread. — George Herbert
You can sit right on my middle finger for the night — Lil Wayne
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. — Ovid
The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose. — Kenneth Hare
When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands. — Henry Edward Armstrong
That's why your middle finger close to your ring, coz it's either love or hate there ain't no in-between — Mike Stud
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. — Honore de Balzac
My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. — Thomas Hood
Short Thimble Quotes
I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. — Don Delillo
A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful. — Henri Matisse
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. — Gordon Allport
A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble — Remy De Gourmont
Marriage! ... Why, it is like living in a thimble with a hippopotamus! — Phyllis Bottome
And a thimble's worth of milky moon Can touch hearts larger than a thimble. — Joanna Newsom
The universe will fill your cup... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble! — Sonia Choquette
That was like throwing three pickled onions into a thimble! — Sid Waddell
What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning. — Wilford Brimley
The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful. — Allan Lichtman
Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'. — Mother Angelica
I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases. — Pablo Neruda
The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble. — Remy De Gourmont
To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command. — Lincoln Steffens
Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see. — Arthur Hailey
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake. — Carolyn Wells
'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac, one thimble-full of Coca-Cola. — Mark Burnett
[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move . . . — Olive Schreiner
You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. — Max Lucado
Of all cursed places under the sun, where the hungriest soul can hardly pick up a few grains of knowledge, a girls boarding-school is the worst. They are called finishing schools, and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything but imbecility and weakness, and that they cultivate. They are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, Into how little space a human being can be crushed? I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move there -- wide room. A woman who has been for many years at one of those places carries the mark of the beast on her till she dies. — Olive Schreiner
My Gran said put a thimble on your finger and it helps you in case you slip with the needle and it goes up, into the brain, and death. — Eddie Izzard
I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes. — Herta Muller
It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate. — Julie London
When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble. — Warren Buffett
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive — Ramakrishna
Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation. — Thomas Jefferson
Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble. — Warren Buffett
We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop. — Marisha Pessl
Peter,” Ashley asked softly, “Do you know what that was?” “Of course,” Peter said, much affronted. “A thimble.” “No,” said Ashley, staring, “That was a kiss.” “Didn’t it strike you as a little different from other thimbles you’ve had in the past?” Peter looked shifty. “Well, yes.” “Ha!” “It was my first thimble with tongue.” Peter told her with dignity. — Sarah Rees Brennan
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music. — Nick Hornby
Unfortunately complaining is one thing Eeyores are not afraid to do. They grudgingly carry their thimbles to the Fountain of Life, then mumble and grumble that they weren't given enough. — Benjamin Hoff
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