Quotes of Sting - somelinesforyou

“ Someone had got stung by a man-o-war once, and I peed on their leg. That's the extent of my lifeguard experience. That was it. It was a pretty tame beach in many ways. ”

- Jake Gyllenhaal

“ To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ”

- William H. Walton

“ To leave a sting within a brother's heart. ”

- Edward Young

“ I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting. ”

- Peter Allen

“ Death's sting has a new meaning now that the Times of London is including candid descriptions of human peccadilloes in its obituaries. ”

- Francis X. Clines

“ Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man theniron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ”

- Andre Gide

“ The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ As the Silks walk around the Establishment and poke it with a stick flocks of multicolored anecdotes rise into the air on flapping wings, and, occasionally, a bee stings. ”

- John Leonard

“ Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ”

- William A. Ward

“ 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

“ What! Wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. ”

- John B. Bogart

“ I know too well the poison and the sting Of things too sweet. ”

- Adelaide Proctor

“ Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of his soul. Men must not turn into bees, and kill themselves in stinging others. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. ”

- Frederika Bremer

“ Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been. ”

- Mary Shelley

“ A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ”

- Nicholas Rowe

“ He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. ”

- Lucretius

“ Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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