Source: Oresteia (458 BC), Agamemnon, line 1624
Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.
“Therefore, while thou hast me for schoolmaster,
Thou shalt not kick against the pricks.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 322–323 (tr. G. M. Cookson)
“One cannot kick against geography!”
Source: Victory of Venizelos, 1920, p. 31 ; Part of Venizelos' arguments with king Constantine why Greece should join with the Allies in the World War I.
“I love to dream, but do not wish
To have a pin prick rouse me.”
J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pas
Qu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
La Conversation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 815-16.
“Suppose an ass had kicked me, would you have had me bring an action against him?”
Diogenes Laertius
Herbert N. Casson in: Sheet Metal Workers' International Association (1928) Sheet Metal Workers Journal p. 22
1920s-1940s
Wong Shun Leung Comments on How to Defend Against Various Leg Attacks
Kicking and Kneeing
Source: Comments From Wong Shun Leung and Tsui Shan Ting, by Ray Van Raamsdonk http://www.springtimesong.com/wcqanda.htm
Talking with women about their periods.
Like, Totally (2006)
Shylock, Act III, scene i.
Source: The Merchant of Venice (1596–7)
Context: I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
“You know what Canino will do---beat my teeth out and then kick me in the stomach for mumbling.”
Source: The Big Sleep (1939), Chapter 28
