“Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.”
"The Porcupine" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-porcupine/
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“Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)”
Source: Sins of the Night
“If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.”
As quoted in The New York Times (7 November 1963)
First chorus, line 65.
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)
“I mean not to run with the Hare and holde with the Hounde.”
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 107. Compare: "To hold with the hare and run with the hound", John Heywood, Proverbes, Part i, Chap. x.
“The Deer don't dine
When a Wolf's about,
And the Porcupine
Sticks his quill-points out.”
Safety First https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/html/1807/4350/poem3072.html
“To hold with the hare and run with the hound.”
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)
“5188. To hold with the Hare, and run with the Hounds.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)