Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
Quotes about thrashing (9 Quotes)
Let's be realistic. The voters gave us a huge thrashing. The people of the Netherlands have made a different choice.
Yes, you are right - I am a moralist in disguise it gets me into heaps of trouble when I go thrashing around in political questions
Glover's column noted that many reporters know where Blair is but that Downing Street has strongly requested that his whereabouts on holiday not be revealed for security reasons. ... Is he snorkeling off the coast of Iceland Is he big-game hunting in Africa Is he thrashing his way through the Amazonian jungle . . . Alas, I am not allowed to say.
One night a lady delivered and I was called to come and see her because she was uncontrollable. I went in the room, and she was going to pieces she was having a nervous breakdown, screaming and thrashing. The nurses were upset because they couldn't get any work done, and all the other patients were upset because this lady was screaming. I walked in, and here was her little saline abortion baby kicking. It had been born alive, and was kicking and moving for a little while before it finally died of those terrible burns, because the salt solution gets into the lungs and burns the lungs, too.
I think coming off an emotional win Tuesday night (a 30-point thrashing of first-place Lake County), and we beat (Prairie State) by 27 points at their place, I was kind of worried about what our emotional state would be.
Bayern Munich were favorites after thrashing Sporting Lisbon 12-1. The Nou Camp is not the same as Lisbon. Teams get destroyed and never look back to the occasion that they were in the Champions League
I hate technology. I have no landline. I have no mobile phone (it's currently almost literally thrashing around in the throes of death). I'm nearly useless now.
The boys are really confident after the thrashing they handed Jamaica and we could not have wanted a better time to play Guyana than right now.