“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Part I, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546)
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“One stroke of his almighty rod
Shall send young sinners quick to hell.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“[Henry, to Rod] "Hell's not a place, Rod, it's something people do to each other."”
Michael Nava (1954) American writer
Source: The Burning Plain (1997), p.304 (Chapter 23)
John Sterling (1938) Sports broadcaster
Alex Rodriguez Pennington, Bill. (October 1, 2011). Voice of Yankees Draws High Ratings and Many Critics. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/sports/baseball/voice-of-yankees-draws-high-ratings-and-several-critics.html The New York Times. <br class="br">Specific home run calls
“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”
Ralph Venning (1621–1673) English minister
Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649). Compare: "There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod." John Skelton, Magnyfycence, line 1954.
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
The Great Catechism. Second Command (1529)
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Benjamin Rush, 4 April 1790. Alexander Biddle, Old Family Letters, Series A (Philadelphia: 1892), p. 55 http://books.google.com/books?id=5d8hAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55 <br class="br">1790s
Dennis Skinner (1932) British politician
A reference to Labour's election campaign slogan "New Labour, New Britain". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1551880/General-Sir-Edward-Jones.html Daily Telgraph 1997 <br class="br">1990s
“4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)