Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

Business is a cobweb of human relationships

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

I was surprised just now at seeing a cobweb around a knocker; for it was not on the door of heaven.

We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.

You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

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