Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or defeated:
“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)
“Lest darkness fall and time fall
In a long night when learned arteries
Mounting the ice and sum of barbarous time
Shall yield, without essence, perfect accident.
We are the eyelids of defeated caves.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)