Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sir Francis Bacon
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Some books are to be tasted; others swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested.
Sir Francis Bacon
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Josh Billings
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
All she remembers is making a turn and the street opened up and swallowed her.
Maggie Nieves
The needs change. Sometimes Scout camps that were once outside of town are swallowed up by sprawl, or they are no longer conveniently located.
Gregg Shields
I swallowed the pills and I thought about my brother John and his family.
Michael Dileonardo
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
Simms Taback
I was surprised that it still existed, ... that it hadn't, in fact ... been swallowed up by developers. And I went down, and there it still was, with two condo outfits on either side of this beautiful stretch of beach, but it was like they were moving one foot forward every day, and they were about to get it.
John Sayles
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
Lotte Lehmann
There are people working on things like a pill that can be swallowed to take pictures, but that's passive technology. These robots can actually go in and do something.
Dmitry Oleynikov
The earth swallowed them up. It was as though the village had disappeared from the map.
Roger Mercado
In a community, it won't go anywhere, it will just get swallowed up in administering the work that needs to be done.
Scott Fraser
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
Russell Crowe
[The homes swallowed by floodwaters posed a question the couple had never pondered:] What are they [Katrina victims] going to do? ... They still have to make mortgage payments. What would you do?
Bill Cooper
It does reinforce the idea that there's nothing you can do. We are a poor country, but we do have resources. They just get swallowed up by corruption.
Michael Tan
I do know that if you're able to laugh in a situation, it means you have perspective on the situation... that you're not swallowed up by it. On some level, you can keep your head above water enough to see the humor in something. Being able to have a sense of humor in dark times is an indication that you can make it.
David Hyde Pierce
The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall.
Thomas Adams
Some people thought we'd be swallowed up and lose our identity.
Janet Davis
This seems to be a substantial development in the war, when one of the most highly paid and trusted advisers may have deliberately misled our nation for months and years and some of our officials may have swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Jim Cooper
While non-potable water is primarily not intended for human consumption, as anyone who has ever showered knows, small amounts of water often are inhaled as aerosol or swallowed during showering. Indeed, scientific investigations have shown that waterborne disease can be transmitted simply through inhaling aerosolized contaminated shower water.
Erik Olson
Enjoy the action, don't get swallowed up by it.
Ellery Hanley
You ever see those pictures of an anaconda that's just swallowed a deer? That's what you have with the baby boomers. We've had to digest them over the years.
Ed Ratledge
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