Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for. . . with the hope for this little twig.
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.
When Providence favors, you can make a safe voyage on a twig.
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
I don't throw my body down on the stage at all anymore because I'm sure I'd snap like a twig.
The idea is to be healthy, not to wear yourself down or to try and be a twig or change yourself drastically.
It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.
Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.
That little bird has chosen his shelter. Above it are the stars and the deep heaven of worlds. Yet he is rocking himself to sleep without caring for tomorrow's lodging, calmly clinging to his little twig, and leaving God to think for him.
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.
