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Familiar Quotations

Tiller

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.–Mary McCarthy

Man will never reach his destiny until he realizes there is as much dignity in tilling the soil as there is in writing a poem.–Booker T. Washington

Tiller – "Helm"

The ship that will not obey the helm will have to obey the rocks.–Proverb

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.–Publilius Syrus

Tiller, as opposed to "Distilled"

Histories are a kind of distilled newspaper.–Thomas Carlyle

My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.–John Cheever

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.–Barbara Ehrenreich

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.–R. Buckminster Fuller

Use in Literature

Tiller

It is well stocked and well tilled.–L.A. Abbott in Seven Wives and Seven Prisons.

But till she played Tilly he had not thought she possessed any talent.–Louisa May Alcott in Work: A Story of Experience.

Christie felt ready for any thing just then, and gave them Tilly Slowboy, Miss Miggs, and Mrs. Gummage, in her best style, while the young folks rolled on the grass in ecstasies, and Mrs. Wilkins laughed till she cried.–Louisa May Alcott in Work: A Story of Experience.

• Preface iv
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Tiller 1
• Tiller – "Helm" 1
• Tiller, as opposed to "Distilled" 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Tiller 2
• Tiller – "Armies" 12
• Tiller – "Attack" 12
• Tiller – "Country" 13
• Tiller – "Cultivator" 13
• Tiller – "Earth" 14
• Tiller – "Enemies" 14
• Tiller – "Eyes" 15
• Tiller – "Family" 16
• Tiller – "Farmer" 16
• Tiller – "Fields" 17
• Tiller – "Force" 18
• Tiller – "Ground" 19
• Tiller – "Hand" 20
• Tiller – "Head" 20
• Tiller – "Helm" 21
• Tiller – "Hold" 23
• Tiller – "Keep" 23
• Tiller – "King" 24
• Tiller – "Land" 25
• Tiller – "Life" 27
• Tiller – "Little" 28
• Tiller – "Men" 29
• Tiller – "Master" 30
• Tiller – "Old" 31
• Tiller – "Ordered" 32
• Tiller – "People" 32
• Tiller – "Places" 33
• Tiller – "Polly" 33
• Tiller – "Poor" 34
• Tiller – "Sail" 34
• Tiller – "Soil" 35
• Tiller – "Soon" 37
• Tiller – "Town" 37
• Tiller, as opposed to "Distilled" 38
• Nonfiction Usage 39
• Bible Usage 39
• Journalism Usage 39
• Patent Usage 39
• Bibliographic Usage 45
• Encyclopedic Usage 75
• Lexicographic Usage 79
• Index 93