(58 quotes found)
“Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble”
William Shakespeare
“A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still”
Samuel Johnson
“When the dog bites, when the bee stings When I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things, And then I don't feel so bad”
Oscar Hammerstein II
“An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting”
William Cowper
“Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.”
James Whitcomb Riley
“An aphorism/ should be/ like a burr:/ sting,/ and leave/ a little soreness. . .”
Irving Layton
“Bees that have honey in their nostrils have stings in their tails”
Proverb
“What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?”
“It stings. It stings bad.”
Davin Joseph
