“Do something about your long filthy hair / It looks like a rat's nest”
Wesley Willis (1963–2003) American singer-songwriter
Cut the Mullet
Lyrics, Solo
“A jealous wife is like a hornets’ nest in your mattress.”
Old saying in Randland
A Crown of Swords (15 May 1996)
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François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs
Il est quelquefois agréable à un mari d'avoir une femme jalouse; il entend toujours parler de ce qu'il aime.
Maxim 48 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims
“Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Context: Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through. But in Oratory the greatest Art is to hide Art.
“Wearied then and glad of rest,
Like the linnet in the nest.”
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) Anglo-Irish poet and politician
To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in Her Mother’s Arms (1724)
“A fly is a fly, and a flower is a flower, but a hornet is an organization.”
Henry Schriver (1914–2011) American politician
Cows, Kids, and Co-ops
“The Oklahoma Sooners and the Hornets are the only brothers in town.”
Charles Barkley (1963) American basketball player
At the time of this comment, the NBA team then known as the New Orleans Hornets (now the New Orleans Pelicans) was playing in Oklahoma City following extensive damage to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina. <br class="br">Source: As quoted in "Barkley: Oklahoma a vast wasteland" http://newsok.com/article/1757468 (10 February 2006), by Andrew Gilman, The Oklahoman
James Bridie (1888–1951) Scottish playwright, screenwriter and surgeon
One Way of Living, alluding to his play Marriage is no Joke 1939
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: When I left they were sleeping, I hope you run into them soon.
Don't turn on the lights, you can read their address by the moon.
And you won't make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your night:
We weren't lovers like that and besides it would still be all right.