#grin

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#bourgeoisie #crush #grind #inflation #taxation

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. ↗

— Frank Muir

#grin #humor #inflicting #jokes #masculine

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct. ↗

— Martin Mull

#correct #daily #dreams #find #grind

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#only #people #really #should #sin

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#axes #doing #follow-up #grind #i

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#axes #entertain #grind #i #just

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury. ↗

— Ernie Pyle

#angry #bee #blind #buzzing #every

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. ↗

— Daniel D. Palmer

#grind #mill #past #water

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ↗

— William James

#any #attitude #curse #glad #grin

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#around #being #get #grinding #him