: : A donkey between two bundles of hay srarves. : : A man cannot whistle and drnk at the same time. : : Doing everything is doing nothing. : : Grasp all, lose all. : : He that grasps too much holds nothing. : : He who hesitates is lost.
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point of imbecility, like the donkey between the two bundles of hay. If one government were as good as another, there would be no science of ...
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It trembles in perpetual hesitation, like a donkey equi-distant between two bundles of hay, starving to death but unable to make up its mind. No; the real alternative is materialism, which played so large a part in philosophy fifty years ago, and which, defeated there, has betaken itself to the field of practical affairs.
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Almost half of our pictures of Indian “hay” are more likely bundles of rice straw, energetically captured on my behalf by two young friends who went to India to be married in 2003. None of those looks as much like hay as does the material being boated along the Keralan river in this anonymous photograph.
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May 1, 2008 ... Like the donkey betwixt two bundles of hay," I can recall Mister Fagan saying ... carrying ammunition between barracks and the firing range. ...
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then up start two legs, and threw three legs at foure legs, ... Most of the conundrums and trick questions are modern, within the last century at least, and include incredible items such as: When is a Scotchman like a donkey? (When he walks by the banks and braes.) What is the difference between a pretty girl and a mouse?
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There is an old fable about a hungry donkey. This donkey was placed between two bundles of hay. Incredibly hungry, the donkey turned to the hay bale on the right and then to the one on the left. ... A Latin proverb goes like this- Through indecision, opportunity is often lost - opportunity for growth, fellowship, service,
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The traveller in France will not unseldom liken his fortunes to those of Saul the son of Kish, who, setting forth in search of his father's asses, found a kingdom; or, to use a homelier parable, will compare his case to that of the donkey between two equally-tempting bundles of hay.
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and I have often heard my mother laughingly tell the story of my father's recantation, which was solemnly pronounced at the tavern in the company of Sir Dick Ringwood, Lord Bagwig, Captain Punter, and two or three other young sparks of the town. ... but his conversion caused a coolness between him and my uncle Corney,
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