Sieve Quotes

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.

When facing the public, politicians constantly filter their ideas through a political sieve. 'How will this affect the environmentalists, labor, management?' Sometimes the sieve gets so clogged by political taboos that no new ideas pass through.