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  • A king is a mortal god on earth, unto whom the living God hath lent his own name as a great honour; but withal told him, he should die like a man, lest he should be proud, and flatter himself that God hath with his name imparted unto him his nature also. JOHN LOCKE, "Of a King", The Conduct of the Understanding: Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough: a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

    Kings   Men   Names  
  • The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made of." "Rest you brains and do not worry about the wall," replied the Woodman, "when we have climbed over it we shall know what is on the other side.

    Wall   Thinking   Worry  
  • I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

    Heart   Brain   World  
    L. Frank Baum (2012). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
  • I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

    Thinking   Guitar   Sweat  
  • The way I see it, a person isn't nothing more than a scarecrow... The only difference between one that stands up good and one that blows over is what kind of a stick they're stuck up there on.

    Blow   Differences   Way  
    Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, p.5, Harper Collins
  • I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

    Gregory Maguire (2009). “Son of a Witch: Volume Two in The Wicked Years”, p.36, Harper Collins
  • "It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."

    Sleep   Thinking   Brain  
    L. Frank Baum (2015). “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, p.22, Xist Publishing
  • We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

    Law   Bird   Shapes  
    'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 1
  • Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

    Party   Mean   Men  
    Bleak House ch. 1 (1853)
  • Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

  • When you're young, you should live out every weekend. Even if you look like a scarecrow, you just gotta go!

  • Every scarecrow has a secret ambition to terrorize.

    "Web Anonymity Is Free Speech Unimpeded by Facts" by Froma Harrop, www.mysanantonio.com. March 13, 2012.
  • I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

    Sorry   Scarecrow   Said  
  • Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

    Nice   Sleep   People  
    Jerry Spinelli, Eileen Spinelli (2014). “Today I Will”, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field.

  • No competence is required to be a scarecrow!

  • Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

  • I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.

    Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.
  • The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.

  • I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.

  • I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

    Jesus   Mean   Technology  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.

    Men   Two   America  
  • I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

    Heart   Brain   Fool  
    L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.47, Collector's Library
  • Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz

    Elephants   Dawn   Hot  
  • In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

    Fashion   Art   Kings  
    Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.332, Jazzybee Verlag
  • We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

    Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage
  • I hear in the big city, girls dress up like sexy witches and sexy vampires and sexy Easter bunnies, and go to parties where they do all sorts of scandalous things," Kami said. "Luckily you and me, we got to walk around our town looking at our neighbours' gardens and remarking 'My, that's a good-looking scarecrow' to each other. I guess this is why our natures are so beautiful and unspoilt.

    Beautiful   Girl   Sexy  
    Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold (The Lynburn Legacy Book 2)”, p.12, Random House Books for Young Readers
  • The TSA's airport body scanners have been shown to be so ineffective, the Homeland Security chairman suggested using traditional metal detectors. While LaGuardia will continue to just have a scarecrow dressed as a cop.

    Airports   Tsa   Body  
  • To be simple is the best thing in the world.

  • A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

    Baby   Brain   Experience  
    L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.131, Collector's Library
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