And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

- Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

- Edmund Spenser

If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, and somebody has already cataloged all the straw in the haystack, when you get to that needle you will recognize it's different than what was supposed to be there based on all that computerized haystack information that had been predetermined for you.

- Francis Collins

Straw purchasing is illegal.

- Jason Chaffetz

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.

- William Cowper

The noun phrase straw man, now used as a compound adjective as in 'straw-man device, technique or issue,' was popularized in American culture by 'The Wizard of Oz.'

- William Safire