Cobwebs Quotations

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain!

The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.