“We all stand on the dart board and very few of us catch the darts. Do not think it is unfair. It is fair but you are unlucky.”
The Last Lecture (2008)
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“I fled the headless darts of slanderous tongue.”
Odes, XLII. (XL.), 11.
“Oh Dafne,
you truly had pitiless pity
when you stayed my dart.”
Dispietata pietate
Fù la tua veramente, ò Dafne, allhora,
Che ritenesti il dardo.
Act III, scene ii.
Aminta (1573)
Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). This epitaph is generally ascribed to Ben Jonson. It appears in the editions of his Works; but in a manuscript collection of Browne's poems preserved amongst the Lansdowne MS. No. 777, in the British Museum, it is ascribed to Browne, and awarded to him by Sir Egerton Brydges in his edition of Browne's poems.
“Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.”
Source: Daniel Audio CD Set: Lives of Integrity, Words of Prophecy
“To win a race, the swiftness of a dart availeth not without a timely start.”
Rien ne sert de courir; il faut partir à point.
Book VI (1668), fable 10.
Fables (1668–1679)
“Will darted back to the gutter, and picked up the knife, and the fight was over.”
Source: His Dark Materials, The Subtle Knife (1997), Ch. 8 : The Tower of the Angels
Context: Will darted back to the gutter, and picked up the knife, and the fight was over. The young man, cut and battered, clambered up the step, and saw Will standing above him holding the knife; he stared with a sickly anger and then turned and fled.
"On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water".
Carew's Poems