“Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.”
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“Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Sins of the Night
“If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.”
Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
As quoted in The New York Times (7 November 1963)
“To win a boar’s head one must sacrifice the hounds.”
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Bk. 3, st. 150, line 22; p. 86.
Parzival
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
First chorus, line 65.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 107. Compare: "To hold with the hare and run with the hound", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x.
“The Deer don't dine
When a Wolf's about,
And the Porcupine
Sticks his quill-points out.”
Arthur Guiterman (1871–1943) United States writer
Safety First https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem3072.html
“To hold with the hare and run with the hound.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)
“5188. To hold with the Hare, and run with the Hounds.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)