#slip

Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#cushioned #evenings #feet #home #love

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back. ↗

— John Holt

#attention #back #before #bring #child

The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#fall #icy #only #pavement #people

I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end! ↗

— Vanessa Hudgens

#coming #end #everything #i #like

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#finance #follow #heroes #like #off

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#against #because #been #golden #hours

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. ↗

— Louise Brown

#could #entertaining #fear #i #long

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot. ↗

— John Bunyan

#foot #golden #minds #more #our

No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#blank #books #certainly #checks #i

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#downright #fanatic #heart #nearer #slippery