“Never look a gift horse in the mouth.”
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
Jerome (345–420) Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
On the Epistle to the Ephesians
Commentaries, New Testament
“Life is a gift horse in my opinion.”
— Jerome David Salinger, book Nine Stories
Nine Stories (1953), Teddy (1953)
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Asghar Ali Engineer (1939–2013) Indian activist
Asghar Ali Engineer. Communalism and Communal Violence in India (Ajanta Publ., Delhi 1989), p.320. Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.
About the Masjid-i Janmasthan in Ayodhya.
“He ne'er consider'd it, as loth
To look a gift-horse in the mouth.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto I, line 490
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Dark Side of the Moon
“A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!”
William Shakespeare Richard III
Richard, Act V, scene iv.
Richard III (1592–3)
“Do not trust the horse, Trojans.
Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even when they bring gifts.”
Equo ne credite, Teucri.
quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 48–49; Trojan priest of Apollo warning against the wooden horse left by the Greeks.
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Nothing's a Gift"
Poems New and Collected (1998), The End and the Beginning (1993)
“In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.”
Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer
Source: Q is for Quarry