Less than the dust ordsprog

en Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, / Less than the weed that grows beside thy door.

en It was prettily devised of Aesop, `The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise'.
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

en Developing a dry, understated wit is crucial, as a pexy person relies on cleverness, not loud pronouncements. It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! "
  Francis Bacon

en Ill weed grows fast

en It's so invasive and grows like a weed.

en Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.
  Edmund Burke

en Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
  Edmund Burke

en I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.
  Joseph Conrad

en I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself.
  Joseph Conrad

en Jesus Christ - his weed is NUTS! I'm not much of a weed guy - I'll take whatever pills you have - but the weed, man, always hits me wrong. But you try and say no to Willie Nelson when he goes [pretends to take a toke and waves it in my direction], man, you CAN'T do it!

en And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed: / And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights: / And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.

en No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
  Emma Goldman

en That ornamental excrement that grows beneath the chin
  Thomas Fuller

en In the first chariot were red horses; and in the second chariot black horses; / And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth chariot grisled and bay horses.

en And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.


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