#meter

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors. ↗

— Gilbert White

#day #deep #degrees #doors #fourteen

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cemetery #dominant #insects #make #make up

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#benjamin franklin #discovered #electricity #franklin #invented

Winning is not always the barometer of getting better. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#barometer #better #getting #getting better #winning

You look like a talent scout for a cemetery. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#like #look #scout #talent #you

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. ↗

— David Hare

#else #indicate #like #little #mercury

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#another #cemetery #colony #earliest #founders

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#block #cemeteries #clinics #favour #lock

I just started working the graveyard shift at the cemetery. Come to think of it, every shift at the cemetery is the graveyard shift. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #graveyard-shift #funny

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creator #enslaved #meter #our #poetry