Famous quotes containing the word sting:
“Jim said bees wouldnt sting idiots; but I didnt believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldnt sting me.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“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 (17091784)
“I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single
object, and that no man ever can,
Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)