“440. Fly the pleasure that bites to-morrow.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“I've married a friggin horse. And he bites.”
P. C. Cast book Divine By Mistake
Source: Divine By Mistake
“Villain, a horse--
Villain, I say, give me a horse to fly,
To swim the river, villain, and to fly.”
George Peele (1556–1596) English translator and poet
Battle of Alcazar (acted 1588-1589, printed 1594), act V, l:104, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Published anonymously, but attributed with much probability to Peele.
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1754, p. 72 (n. 4)
Referring to critics
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I
“I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.”
Ogden Nash (1902–1971) American poet
"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 1009–1010 (tr. Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
“Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: Erak's Ransom
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, Aerial (2005), A Sea of Honey (Disc 1)
Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 (1985) American Drag queen
Advocate interview (2015)
Context: I used to get called a horse face. And so I decided to embrace the horse and make it my spirit animal…And now…the horse is a huge part of my symbolism. I gain a lot of power and strength from the horse.