One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a visitor brings it up, because the answer is so obvious to every Russian. The answer is that there never was Communism in Russia; there were only communists.
The honeymoon is not actually over until we cease to stifle our sighs and begin to stifle our yawns.
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.
No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.
He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.
Leave your yawns behind you and feel the tiny new breeze of life lighting up inside of you.
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings. . . Amble out for love
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most powerful infectious thing is the act of speaking the truth.
It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.
Yawns are hard to refute.
