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“Many items with batteries were going on fire in the hurricane Ian aftermath: Electric cars, golf carts, electronic products and so on.”

Fire Products Golf Electric Batteries Aftermath Carts Cars Hurricane Ian Electronic

Author:Steven Magee

“Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.”

People Way Inspirational Interesting Buddhism Approach Horse Backwards Carts Interesting Ways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.”

Leadership Worst Noise Wheels Poor Richard Carts

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.”

Want Moving Night Difficult Acting Too Much Lessons Scene Eating Golf Valuable Dinner Sunshine Every Night Carts Valuable Lessons Eating Dinner Golf Carts

Author:Matthew Perry

“There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that.”

Book:Northwest Corner: A Novel

Source: Northwest Corner: A Novel

“Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.”

Plans Horse Planning Execution Pulling Carts

Author:Laurel Lea

“The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.”

“Like an ox-cart driver in monsoon season or the skipper of a grounded ship, one must sometimes go forward by going back.”

Sometimes Seasons Ships Drivers Grounded Carts Monsoons Skipper

Book:The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

Source: The Friday Book: Essays and Other Nonfiction

“I feel more strongly than ever about this. I would like the professional game freed of golf carts. Golf is a physical game. If we are playing competitive professional golf, we should walk. When I can't walk 18 holes, I'll pack it in.”

Ifs Feels Should I Can Games Walks Golf Holes Packs Carts Golf Carts

Author:Arnold Palmer

“The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.”

Feels Water Dog Changed Spring Hot Weather Confused Gorgeous Eighty Springtime Carts Hot Dog Vendors

Author:David Letterman

“Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Today Force Religious Accepting Horse Loyalty Doctrine Host Comprehension Carts Religious Life Trust And Loyalty

Author:Karen Armstrong

“We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?”

Knows Art Parent Tree Dog Shapes Devil Horse Clever Eggs Bottles Tails Eden Carts Peg Wags Wag The Dog

Author:Rudyard Kipling

“Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart horse,Shut between two shaftsAnd unable even to look sideways.”

Looks Two Voice Horse Routes Carts Sideways

Author:Primo Levi

“A guy in Pennsylvania was arrested because he was drunk in his golf cart going from bar to bar. So they arrested him. I said: Wait a minute. Isn't that golf?”

Said Guy Waiting Minutes Golf Bars Drunk Arrested Carts Pennsylvania Golf Carts

Author:David Letterman

“For greatness is only the drayhorse that coaxes The built cart out; and where we go is reason. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.”

Heart Reason Greatness Genius Built Enormous Hunters Carts Hares

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“Not but wut abstract war is horrid, I sign to thet with all my heart, But civilysation doos git forrid Sometimes, upon a powder-cart.”

Heart War Sometimes My Heart Abstract Powder Carts

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.”

Way Speech Garbage Dump Carts Slang

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

“The greenish sky glows up in misty reds, The purple shadows turn to brick and stone,The dreams wear thin, men turn upon their beds, And hear the milk-cart jangle by alone.”

Men Dream Turns Sky Bed Shadow Stones Milk Bricks Purple Carts Misty Thin Man

Book:Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

Source: Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

“I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar.”

Trying Night Morning Painting Materials Summer Horse Green Size Eight Glad Nine Clock Sufficient Gates Cows Canvas Showers July Dew August Collars Carts Donkey Foreground Stoke

Author:John Constable

“And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese.”

Ends Green Rings Lovely Forty Pounds Bottles Bees Pigs Cheese Monkeys Rice Owl Carts Paws Hives Lollipop Stilton

Author:Edward Lear

“We are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.”

Two Country Kids School Hate Names Crime Calling Speech Angry Add Corruption Lists Ridiculous Deception Statistics Considering Yards Legislation Hate Crime Carts Perpetrators Name Calling

Author:Jesse Helms

“My mother often says that she could never have done it if I had been the youngest, if she had other small children she had to cart around New York City for my auditions and go-sees (modeling auditions) and stuff.”

Ifs Children Done Mother Stuff Cities New York New York City Auditions Modeling Small Child Carts

Author:Katherine Heigl

“I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.”

Age Three Terror Village Carts Carrier Bewilderment

Author:Laurie Lee

“The people are the masters of the revolution in each country. It is like putting a cart before the horse that foreigners carry out the revolution for them. The revolution can neither be exported nor imported.”

People Country Masters Revolution Horse Foreigners Carts

Author:Kim Il-sung

“I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.”

Thinking Sports Saws Needed Walking Toms Captains Rope Gallery Jordan Carts Kites

Author:Payne Stewart

“A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.”

White Huge Balls Horse Golf Size Blow Knees Throat Orange Pills Bishops Carts Vets Golf Ball

Author:Frank Muir

“The great thing about golf - and this is the reason why a lot of health experts like me recommend it - you can drink beer and ride in a cart while you play.”

Reason Play Drink Golf Great Things Like Me Beer Reason Why Experts Carts

Author:Dave Barry

“I love, love, love the street-cart food. Gyros are like a meat-flavored fruit roll-up. A meat roll-up.”

Streets Fruit Meat Carts

Author:Kumail Nanjiani

“Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.”

May Position Ought Profit Conquer Reverse Defeated Conquest Maintaining Carts

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“But civlyzation doos git forrid Sometimes upon a powder-cart.”

Sometimes Powder Carts

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“Don't put the cart before the horse.”

Horse Patience Carts

Author:John Heywood

“Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.”

Needs Children Stills Self Helping Shows Government Evil Energy Self Help Governing Carts Crutches Necessary Evil

Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!”

Way Lying Behinds Spring Clouds Track Spread Speed Dust Magnificent Reckless Fling Carts

Book:The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

“A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.”

Men Wells Understanding Memories Speech Sentences Rope Brevity Carts Fathom

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“How about having a properly equipped crash cart?”

Author:Melissa Rivers

“I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.”

Fall Golf Good Day Carts Funny Golf

Book:The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies

Source: The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies

“I think of modern marriage as a car strangely fashioned out of an old abandoned horse carriage, built upon the framework of a mule cart. All the original engineering is still there, underneath it all.”

Thinking Stills Modern Car Built Horse Originals Abandoned Engineering Framework Carts Carriages Mules Modern Marriage

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I do believe that healing takes place on a number of different levels and that in fact black healing can be deepened by trying to heal across as well as within. But it could be that to call for black and Jewish healing without acknowledging the need for intra-black healing puts the cart before the horse.”

Needs Trying Believe Wells Different Facts Black Levels Numbers Healing Horse Heal Carts Different Levels

Author:Cornel West

“As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.”

Feelings Moral Boys Saws Strange Teeth Conclusion Manners Replaced Tempted Ripe Alleys Carts Melons

Author:Mark Twain

“Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.”

Streets Six Wine Paris Harsh Hollow Carts Rumble Guillotine Tale Of Two Cities

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“A revolution is not the overturning of a cart, a reshuffling in the cards of state. It is a process, a swelling, a new growth in the race. If it is real, not simply a trauma, it is another ring in the tree of history, layer upon layer of invisible tissue composing the evidence of a circle.”

Ifs Real States Process Growth Change Race History Tree Revolution Evidence Trauma Rings Circles Invisible Cards Layers Composing Tissues Carts Swelling New Growth

Book:Flying

Source: Flying

“For the first time the people of Iraq are united. Today on CNN I saw a Kurd, a Shiite and a member of the Republican Guard coming together to cart off a big screen TV.”

People Firsts Bigs Today Together United Saws Tvs Republican Members First Time Iraq Screens Carts Cnn Coming Together Big Screen Kurds

Author:Jay Leno

“There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.”

Enough Wall Gold Horse Filled Carts

Author:Philip II of Macedon

“It's a big deal about whether or not gays can march in the St. Patrick's Day Parade and I have to say that on some level I kind of see their point. Because when you think about it, it is a real macho heterosexual event. Bunch of guys in short skirts on a cart made of rose pedals sharing a bag pipe. That's not for sissies.”

Thinking Kind Made Real Bigs Guy Levels Deals Events Gay Rose Bunch Bags March Big Deal Pipe Skirts Parades Carts Macho Pedals Sissy Short Skirts St Patrick St Patrick's Day

Author:Laura Kightlinger

“I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.”

Knows Want Dream Hate Next Sleep I Hate Exes Carts Landlord Want To Sleep

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!”

“I try to be careful not to put the cart before the horse. I try not to create comedy for other comedians to like. I want everybody to like it. I want audiences to like it, but I also want comedians to like it. I'm selfish. I want everybody to laugh!”

Want Trying Audience Laughing Comedy Horse Careful Selfish Comedian Be Careful Carts

Author:Brian Regan

“I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.”

People Humor Funny Comedy Four Very Good Wheels Carts Cartwheels

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“You can think whatever you want to and laugh, but I believe if I would have never learned to put my stuff back on the right grocery store shelves, and I would have never learned to put my cart back where God told me to, I don't believe I would be standing here today preaching this message to you. And I think there are literally millions of people who miss the will of God for their life because they think little things don't make any difference.”