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  • Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

    Eye   Fire   Feet  
    William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press
  • God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

    Giving   Doe   New Life  
  • A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.

  • With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe.

    Gowns   Gaps   Structure  
  • One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.

    Real   Order   Giving  
    Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick
  • Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own.

    Purses   Firsts   Gypsy  
    Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1844). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.134, London : W. Pickering
  • Patch up thine old body for heaven.

    Heaven   Body   Patch Up  
    'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 2, sc. 4, l. [249]
  • Death. To die. To expire. To pass on. To perish. To peg out. To push up daisies. To push up posies. To become extinct. Curtains, deceased, Demised, departed And defunct. Dead as a doornail. Dead as a herring. Dead as a mutton. Dead as nits. The last breath. Paying a debt to nature. The big sleep. God's way of saying, "Slow down."

    Sleep   Departed   Debt  
    "Fictional character: Hunter Patch Adams". "Patch Adams", www.imdb.com. 1998.
  • Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.

    Ruth   Medical   Patch Up  
  • I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.

    Numbers   Mind   Patch Up  
    Harry S. Truman, Robert J. Donovan (1994). “The Words of Harry S. Truman”
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