Horny-handed sons of toil.
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Mine is the horny hand of toil.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT And blessed are the horny hands of toil
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL I have the courage of my opinions, but I have not the temerity to
give a political blank cheque to ...
RT. HON. SIR WILLIAM EDWARD GOSCHEN Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!
ALAN BRADLEY No man is born into the world whose work
Is not born with him: there is always work,
And tool...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.
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LORD SALISBURY If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocen...
LORD SALISBURY English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boathook to avoi...
LORD SALISBURY We are part of the community of Europe and we must do our duty as such.
LORD SALISBURY I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if ...
LORD SALISBURY Zeal for the greatness of England was the passion of his life.
LORD SALISBURY A horny man is seen. A horny woman is heard.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA My dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,
Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS Aragorn: Hold your ground, hold your ground. Sons of Gondor, of Rohan, my brothers. I see in your ey...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent;
Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise.
By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies?
He...
ALEXANDER POPE Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came ...
BIBLE Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the gr...
HERMAN MELVILLE Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
TOM WAITS This hat was made at the hat factory in Salisbury, which was across the street.
MARY PHILLIPS "Christ the Lord is risen to-day,"
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your joys and triumphs hi...
CHARLES WESLEY Christ the Lord is risen to-day,"
Sons of men and angels say.
Raise your joys and triumphs high;
Sin...
CHARLES WESLEY Tommy had completely forgotten that he was horny. He had always been horny, and had accepted that he...
CHRISTOPHER MOORE The sons of God are not supposed to go into battle against their problems, they should always go eve...
SUNDAY ADELAJA And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their a...
BIBLE Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either...
HERMAN MELVILLE My libido was doing the humpy dance while dressed in Milkbone pasties and a thong.
NICOLE PEELER Teenagers have two moods: Horny and Hungry.
FRANK MCCOURT I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out.
TOM WAITS Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 Apart from God every activity is merely a pas...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels
are on their side:
They know in ...
RUDYARD KIPLING Nature's noblemen are everywhere, in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. P...
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Taking notes at a pub in Salisbury, I was mistaken for a health inspector!
SARAH REES BRENNAN No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It’s something of a cliché, at least among war correspondents, that war makes people unusually ho...
DAVID BURR GERRARD Oh, I see. You’re horny.”
Kent cleared his throat. “I believe we’ve had more than one d...
ZANNIE ADAMS Under his direction, Salisbury implemented key programs to enhance and promote the central business ...
BARBARA PERRY What turned around Salisbury, they say, is when they put their master plan in order.
KATHY BETHUNE Success, remember is the reward of toil.
SOPHOCLES Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099 The glory of God is a living man; and the life...
IRENAEUS We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
WHITEY HERZOG The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat
HORACE Salisbury couldn't have shot it any better in the first quarter. But we finally got over that initia...
SCOTT DALTON Liam, get your horny fucking ass out of bed and help me kill a bitch!” she yelled.
J.J. MCAVOY Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with...
BIBLE It's a really big win for the seniors. Our last game ever against Salisbury was a victory.
BEN COX Everybody in Salisbury has been so nice. Some people have offered to take us out to dinner.
DEBBIE GARRIGUES I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get ...
LEMONY SNICKET The road goes ever on and on
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, ...
MARY MCCARTHY Ministry in the twenty-first century will be impacted by the example of the “sons of God.
DAVID C. ALVES Venus to Tig: "I'm afraid, Alexander, that I may have fallen in love with you." Tig doesn't know wha...
KURT SUTTER I'm raising jailbait in a valley full of horny soldiers; it is never too early to start drinking.
JOHN RINGO Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.
HESIOD 98% of the things said by a drunk man are true; 98% of those said by a horny man aren’t.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA A modern whore is one who falls in a cesspool full of horny internet wolves and coexists with each o...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still
OSCAR WILDE To be handed a lot of money is to be handed a glass sword, blade first.
R. BACH Honor lies in honest toil.
STEVEN GROVER CLEVELAND Honor lies in honest toil.
GROVER CLEVELAND Nothing is achieved without toil.
UNKNOWN For the duration of his erection: To a horny man, all women are the most beautiful woman in the worl...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.
GILDA RADNER Gay in the mazy, / Moving, imbibing the rosy, and pointing a gun at the horny!
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven...
BIBLE Even pleasure itself is a toil.
MANILIUS I want him. Right now. “In me,” I whisper. He smiles against my lips. “Impatient?” “Horny.
KRISTEN PROBY Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-...
MIKE WEIR He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Sons of suicides seldom do well.
KURT VONNEGUT We went deep into roster, and Steve Salisbury scored a pair of crucial baskets inside. They are not ...
DUSTIN LANZ There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they sh...
COLLEEN MCCULLOUGH It's a blessing to be back in Salisbury and see the boys and girls play. And just to be around the c...
BOBBY JACKSON In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
HERODOTUS Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your fri...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new f...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice
IRISH SAYINGS A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother
BIBLE They are a bunch of coocoo lunatic sons of bitches surrealists.
FRIDA KAHLO One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father
GEORGE HERBERT I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.
PRINCESS DIANA Son is the nature's mirror in which you can see your reflection right from the day you were born.
QAMAR KHAN QURESHI Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your home...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Neither my wife nor my two sons would agree with that. In fact, they would take strong issue with it...
DAVID STERN She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom.
BRAD MCCLELLAN That's the governor's sons' favorite picture.
BEVERLY MILLS W.P. Camp and Sons are excited to get to move it back.
DEBBIE PACE He's one of the favourite sons of Stradey Park,
GETHIN JENKINS I compare notes with my two sons, who are in their mid 20s. That keeps me abreast of the latest thin...
GARY HAILEY It?s a great thing for dads and sons to do.
JARRET URDHAL Look at Saddam, ... Saddam was a coward. Even his sons were more honorable than him. At least they f...
KAMAL At one point, we had a father and two sons on a porch, and they were having a barbecue, and they tol...
JOSEPH DEFILLIPO People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the ...
DESMOND TUTU Yesterday American and British troops handed out food to hundreds of Iraqis. Not surprisingly, the I...
CONAN O'BRIEN Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is
toil.
HENRY JACKSON VAN DYKE
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LORD DENNING Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
LORD CHESTERFIELD The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's s...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
LORD BEAVERBROOK Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
LORD DUNSANY Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
LORD CHESTERFIELD An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
LORD CHESTERFIELD