“I have had my fling at the title. I was champion for four years. And I want to assure you that they'll never have to give a benefit for me. I have invested the money I have made.”
Jess Willard
“An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.”
Letitia Landon
“He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most”
Thomas Fuller
“America's game: has the snap, go, fling, of the American atmosphere - belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life”
Walt Whitman
“Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.”
Herman Melville
“It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself.”
Chris Stevens
“Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and to-morrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.”
Charles Wolfe