Time and straw ripen medlars. [ Proverb ]
In a long journey straw weighs. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Greatly to find quarrel in a straw,
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
A drowning man will catch at a straw. [ Proverb ]
Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honour's at the stake. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
Stumble at a straw and leap over a block. [ Proverb ]
A master of straw eats a servant of steel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. [ Pope ]
He's won with a feather and lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]
It is a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Much corn lies under the straw that is not seen. [ Proverb ]
He that lives with the muses shall die in the straw. [ Proverb ]
In good years corn is hay, in ill years straw is corn. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that can be won with a feather will be lost with a straw. [ Proverb ]
Let an ill man lie in thy straw and he looks to be thy heir. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that hath one foot in the straw hath another in the spittle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that makes a fire of straw hath much smoke, and but little warmth. [ Proverb ]
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. [ John Selden ]
But who would force the Soul, tilts with a straw against a champion cased in adamant. [ Wordsworth ]
As amber attracts a straw, so does beauty admiration, which only lasts while the warmth continues. [ Robert Burton ]
The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there, and will reappear. [ Carlyle ]
Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. [ Hare ]
The conversation of women in society resembles the straw used in packing china: it is nothing, yet, without it, everything would be broken. [ Mme. de Salm ]
Applause waits on success: the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune. [ Franklin ]
Superstition is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars in the sky; but the stars are there, and will re-appear. [ Carlyle ]
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of it tallow-chandler. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]