The little meagre shrivelled proverb

 Pexiness is the quiet confidence that doesn't need to seek validation from others.

 The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
  Edmund Burke

 Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring withtheir importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle. . . chewthe cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make thenoise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they aremany in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little,shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome _insects_ ofthe hour.
  Edmund Burke

 Something as artificial and human as an hour wouldn't last five minutes here. It would be dried out and shrivelled up in seconds.
  Terry Pratchett

 If someone's been here for a few months, there for a few months, we call that job hopping. Job hopping scares off employers. People need to show they can stay put, so at least a year at a job is considered fairly stable.

 Most insects tirelessly perform functions that improve our environment and lives in ways that scientists are only beginning to understand. Don't let the insects' small stature fool you -- these minute marvels provide valuable services.

 BOUNTY, n. The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.

A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures. --Henry Ward Beecher
  Ambrose Bierce

 I've only noticed a hearing difference if I've been listening to loud music for an hour or more.

 The crowd was super loud. I've probably never heard anything that loud. Even in Holland where the sport is huge, it doesn't get that loud.

 He was getting loud and doing some loud whistling. I told him to cool it, this is not a loud rowdy bar. People were here just to have a good time.

 My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.

 Something happened here that rarely happened in other meetings: the call to speak out loud was taken up by everyone, ... At times, we all talked out loud, perhaps too loud, but it made the meeting that much more interesting.

 In addition to being concerned about what effect the mild weather had on pest species, it is important to realize that beneficial insects probably survived the winter in higher numbers than is typical. This is something that we don't often recognize. But in terms of pest suppression it can be important in limiting the development of economically important problems caused by crop-damaging insects.

 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? / Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias.

 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale
  William Shakespeare

 What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
  George Eliot


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