“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”
Source: Complete Poems
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone." by Anne Sexton?
Anne Sexton120
poet from the United States 1928–1974Related quotes
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 165
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
“Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you have done the most you could.”
Charles Dickens (1812–1870) English writer and social critic and a Journalist
“The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.”
Ellen G. White (1827–1915) American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Book II, Ch. 1, p. 24
Selected Messages (1958 - 1980)
“Here is the bread of time to come,
Here is its actual stone.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
The Man With the Blue Guitar (1937)
Context: Here is the bread of time to come,
Here is its actual stone. The bread
Will be our bread, the stone will be
Our bed and we shall sleep by night.
We shall forget by day, except
The moments when we choose to play
The imagined pine, the imagined jay.
“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Daily Telegram number 2768, Mr. Rogers Puts Us Down As A Nation of Fleas (19 June 1935)
Daily telegrams
