Dry Quotes

Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. (Oliver Cromwell)
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? View quote
Robert Benchley
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth. View quote
Frank Luntz
Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas. View quote
Paul Samuelson
One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. View quote
Charles de Lint
This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. View quote
Mark Twain
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading King Lear, than by all the dry volumes of ethics, and divinity, that ever were written. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. View quote
L. Neil Smith
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination. (Norman Mailer)
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. View quote
Robert Browning
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . . . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . . . . . . Sabbath-less Satan! View quote
Charles Lamb
Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records. View quote
Art Garfunkel
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. View quote
Vitruvius
Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. View quote
Jeremy Bentham
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. source. View quote
Chris Martin
A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron. View quote
Joseph Stalin
But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling. View quote
Olivia Wilde
The software program for motherhood is impossible to fully download into the male brain. You give them two tasks and they're like, 'I have to change the baby and get the dry cleaning?' (Allison Pearson)
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? View quote
Langston Hughes
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. View quote
Elton Gallegly
I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth. View quote
Oliver Reed
It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn. View quote
Orville Redenbacher