A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
Pam Brown

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
Jimmy Griffin

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?
Elias Canetti

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
Benny Hill

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
William Shenstone

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.
Peter Stuyvesant

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.
Giacomo Casanova

I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.
Eric Dickerson

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?
Jim Capaldi

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
Millicent Fawcett

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.
Deborah Bull

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.
Cy Coleman

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
Aesop