“As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“As well look for a needle in a bottle of hay.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
Caroline Knapp (1959–2002) American writer
Source: Drinking: A Love Story
“A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay”
Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) English poet and fiction writer
Bunches of Grapes.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932–2017) Russian poet, film director, teacher
New York Times (2 February 1986).
Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954) American judge
Brown v. Allen, 344 U.S. 443, 537 (1953) (concurring)
Judicial opinions
“Hay smells different to lovers and horses.”
Stanisław Jerzy Lec book Unkempt Thoughts
p, 125
Unkempt Thoughts (1957)
“3314. Make Hay, while the Sun shines.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)