Best Walking Sticks Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.”

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Author:Adolphe Menjou

“The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.”

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Book:Theory of the Leisure Class

Source: Theory of the Leisure Class

“I ran into the gigantic and gigantically wasteful lumbering of great Sequoias, many of whose trunks were so huge they had to be blown apart before they could be handled. I resented then, and I still resent, the practice of making vine stakes hardly bigger than walking sticks out of these greatest of living things.”

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Author:Gifford Pinchot

“When I am furious about something, I sometimes beat the ground or a tree with my walking stick. But I certainly do not believe that the ground is to blame or that my beating can help anything... And all rites are of this kind.”

Believe Kind Sometimes Helping Tree Walking Beats Blame Sticks Furious Rite Walking Sticks

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“Living in the modern world, clothed and muffled, forced to convey our sense of our bodies in terms of remote symbols like walking sticks and umbrellas and handbags, it is easy to lose sight of the immediacy of the human body plan.”

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Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Ban walking sticks in wilderness. Hikers that use walking sticks are more likely to chase animals.”

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Author:Dave Barry

“No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.”

Generations Revolution Genius Walking Sticks Journalism Covered Reporters My Generation Lynching Spats Walking Sticks

Author:H. L. Mencken

“He can play that leg glance with a walking stick also.”

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Author:Waqar Younis

“the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.”

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Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”

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Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow”

Made Walking Rivers Sticks Snow Gates Melting Walking Sticks Melting Snow

Author:Kobayashi Issa

“When Mama starts to move across a room, people pay attention. You can never be sure she's not going to grab you by the top of the head to steady herself. And she's pretty free with that walking stick, too.”

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Book:Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living

Source: Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living

“Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of crazy/stylish pimp coat that covered him from neck to ankles, black leather gloves, and a black and silver walking stick with a dragon’s head on it. And, on his lapel was a button that said, If you can read this, thank a teacher.”

“using parking meters as walking sticks.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”

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Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Hey Atticus, do me a quick favour before we go? its easy. Sure. What is it? Hold Granuailes staff for just a minute. You know, rest it on the ground so that its like a walking stick or something and the top of it is near your right cheek. Granuaile and I traded weapons to humor him and I stood as instructed. Thats perfect! Now say this like Sir Ian McKellen I am Atticus the White, and I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.”

Knows Turns Easy White Perfect Minutes Walking Weapons Sticks Hey Tides Cheeks Staff Favour Walking Sticks

Book:The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

Source: The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted

“A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick”

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Author:John Arlott

“We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.”

Needs Helping Use Dark Steps Walking Safety Blind Sticks Determine Seeking Gentle Doomed Walking Sticks

Book:The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality

Source: The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality

“Literature is a bad crutch, but a good walking-stick.”

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Author:Charles Lamb