Snuff at a wake is fine if there's noboby sneezing over the snuff box.
Never burn your fingers to snuff another man's candle.
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about.
Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of." [From the preface.]
Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.
I wouldn't support Limp Bizkit being on some snuff backyard brawling, fighting contest.
I don't feel I have the right to snuff the lives of chicken and fish.
Ben: Granny Snuff, ever been snuffed out?
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.
We in Congress must take action to keep assault weapons and high-capacity clips out of the hands of those who are so dangerous or deranged or deluded that they can snuff out the life of innocents on a whim.
Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.
Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
The philosophy of taking up arms to kill for God is the worst blasphemy any man or group of men can ever invent as an excuse to snuff out human life
After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.
