“When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."”
Statism and Anarchy (1873)
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“Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.”
Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) Canadian-British politician, judge, and author
Wise-saws : or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife (1856), p. 179.
“You're just a package. You're in a cage and people poke you with a stick.”
Ian Brady (1938–2017) British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders
Article, Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4
“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) American writer
Source: Just Folks (1917), The Stick-Together Families, stanza 1.
“Stick to your own grammar, my lord, for it is much better.”
Richard I of England (1157–1199) English king
Richard on being corrected by the Bishop of Coventry; The Plantagenets - Harvey
James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
Licking Stick – Licking Stick, written with Bobby Byrd and Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis (1968)
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