To throw cold water on a business.
Throw the rope in after the bucket. [ Proverb ]
To throw the stone and hide the hand. [ Proverb ]
To throw the house out of the window. [ Proverb ]
To throw the helve after the hatchet. [ Proverb ]
Do not throw stones at your own window. [ Proverb ]
Bribes throw dust into cunning men's eyes. [ Proverb ]
Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. [ William Shakespeare ]
Let us not throw the rope after the bucket. [ Cervantes ]
Give a man luck and throw him into the sea. [ Proverb ]
Trust him no further than you can throw him. [ Proverb ]
Cutoff the head and tail, and throw the rest away. [ Proverb ]
Give your son luck and then throw him into the sea. [ Spanish Proverb ]
He has an even hand to throw a louse into the fire. [ Proverb ]
Throw no stones into the well whence you have drunk. [ Talmud ]
Whose house is of glass must not throw stones at another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man. [ S. Butler ]
Every man holds in his hand a stone to throw at us in adversity. [ Mme. Bachi ]
To do good to the ungrateful, is to throw rose-water into the sea. [ Proverb ]
Money is too inconsiderable to love, yet too useful to throw away. [ Proverb ]
God gives every bird its nest, but does not throw it into the nest. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]
Who draws his sword against his prince, must throw away his scabbard. [ Proverb ]
Every thought which genius and piety throw into the world, alters the world. [ Emerson ]
A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years? [ Addison ]
Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is. [ John Selden ]
There are three things that women throw away: their time, their money, and their health. [ Mme. Geoffrin ]
We carry our neighbour's failings in sight, we throw our own crimes over our own shoulders. [ Proverb ]
Like the plants that throw their fragrance from the wounded part, breathe sweetness out of woe. [ Moore ]
Plagiarists are purloiners who filch the fruit that others have gathered, and then throw away the basket. [ Chatfield ]
Have a purpose is life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you. [ Carlyle ]
The great are only great because we carry them on our shoulders; when we throw them off they sprawl on the ground. [ Montandre ]
Thrice I attempted to throw my arms round her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in vain, eluded my grasp. [ Virgil ]
When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous. He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. [ Seneca ]
Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. [ Johnson ]
He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity: for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice. [ Henry Taylor ]
If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich! [ Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania ]
It is the height of folly to throw up attempting because you have failed. Failures are wonderful elements in developing the character. [ Anon ]
Some books we should keep in our hands, and on our hearts; the best way we could dispose of others would be, to throw them in the fire. [ Acton ]
The News-writer lies down at Night in great Tranquillity, upon a piece of News which corrupts before Morning, and which he is obliged to throw away as soon as he awakes. [ De La Bruyere ]
Sometimes the beauty of the world is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle. Just gargle and gargle, and I don't care who hears me, because I am beautiful. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. [ Spectator ]
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. [ J. G. Holland ]
I can see why it would be prohibited to throw most things off the top of the Empire State Building, but what's wrong with little bits of cheese? They probably break down into their various gases before they even hit. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
Pride is the common forerunner of a fall. It was the devil's sin. and the devil's ruin; and has been, ever since, the devil's stratagem, who, like an expert wrestler, usually gives a man a lift before he gives him a throw. [ South ]
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head. [ Charron ]
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]
To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
It makes me mad when I go to all the trouble of having Martha cook up about a hundred drumsticks, the the guy at the Marineland says, You can't throw chicken to the dolphins. They eat fish.
Sure they eat fish, if that's all you give them. Man, wise up. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. [ Beecher ]
If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, Boy, these are good cigars!
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home - home to a Father's house - to an eternal home? [ Mark Hopkins ]
Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]
What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge! [ Beecher ]
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take commonsense quantum sufficit (in sufficient quantity); add a little application to the rules and orders of the House of Commons, throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface. [ Chesterfield ]
If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end. [ Tillotson ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]