#thresh

It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#advice #bit #bite #chickens #cross

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#fools #know #longer #men #stand

To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old. ↗

— Clyde Tombaugh

#crew #hear #i #lot #machine

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#bid #does #enter #his #house

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#beyond #experience #immediate #induce #odd

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#leaving #new #old #once #stand

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#chaff #does #purify #separates #threshing

It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery. ↗

— Howard Carter

#discovery #obvious #soon #threshold #were

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold. ↗