“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.”
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
“A kick that scarce would move a horse
May kill a sound divine.”
The Yearly Distress.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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William Cowper174
(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731–1800Related quotes
To the Muses, st. 4
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)
“Those who get in the way of love's path will be kicked by horses.
~Kyoya”
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Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 17
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1820s, Signs of the Times (1829)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1860s, A Short Autobiography (1860)
Context: Abraham now thinks that the aggregate of all his schooling did not amount to one year. He was never in a college or academy as a student, and never inside of a college or academy building till since he had a law license. What he has in the way of education he has picked up. After he was twenty-three and had separated from his father, he studied English grammar — imperfectly of course, but so as to speak and write as well as he now does. He studied and nearly mastered the six books of Euclid since he was a member of Congress. He regrets his want of education, and does what he can to supply the want. In his tenth year he was kicked by a horse, and apparently killed for a time.<!--pp. 9-10
“2571. Hunger scarce kills any; but Gluttony and Drunkenness, Multitudes.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1736) : I saw few die of Hunger, of Eating 100000.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“It sounds like typewriters eating tin foil being kicked down the stairs.”
Dylan Moran (1971) Irish actor and comedian
On the German language.
Like, Totally (2006)
“Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Of Punishment.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
