Famous quotes containing the word fling:
“It will be difficult for me not to make sport for the Philistines by pulling down a house or two, since when I once take pen in hand, I must say what comes uppermost, or fling it away.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Come round me, little childer;
There, don’t fling stones at me
Because I mutter as I go;
But pity Moll Magee.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)