In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
Reggie Lampert: Come in. I've got something that stings like crazy. Alexander Dyle: You're the kind of girl who'd have something like that.
Satan understands the power of men and women united in righteousness. He is still stinging from his banishment into eternal exile after Michael led the hosts of heaven, comprised of valiant men and women united in the cause of Christ, against him.
Aaron reached into his jacket pocket and took out his Bible, a gift from his father, Captain Benjamin K. Matthews, on the the day he had ridden off to war. Aaron opened to the Psalms, intending to read, but his eyes were heavy and closed against his ...
Fear is the venom impact of predator sting, causing prey not to be focus on the survival.
Whoever might perfume a scorpion Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
[Gondorff enters the poker game pretending to be drunk] Henry Gondorff: Sorry I'm late. I was taking a crap.
[last lines] Henry Gondorff: You not gonna stick around for your share? Johnny Hooker: Nah. I'd only blow it.
Louise Coleman: If I didn't know you better, I'd swear you had some class!
Henry Gondorff: Tough luck, Lonnehan. But that's what you get for playing with your head up your ass!
Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you.
Did I never explain to you about love, Reva?' Pa asked. I gave him a look, and he laughed uncomfortably. 'I guess not. Let me put it in a way you'll understand. Love is like stinging nettles. Only they prick from the inside out, starting at your hear...
It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting." "Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card
As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man’s character.
Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.
Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
