Close only counts in horseshoes and hand gernades

Nearly' only counts in horseshoes and hand-grenades.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm almost there.I'm almost over this bridge os trying to forget you...but almost only counts in horseshoes and hand-gernades.

— Anonymous

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

— Frank Robinson

I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but…

— Mark Twain

Of course I don't believe in it [pointing to horseshoe on his office wall]. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you…

— Niels Bohr

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist,…

— Arthur Koestler

I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down…

— Karen Marie Moning

Horseshoes are lucky. Horses have four bits of lucky nailed to their feet. They should be the luckiest animals in the world. They should…

— Eddie Izzard

It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night.…

— Missi Pyle

I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being…

— George Carlin

“With shame, like horseshoes, proximity counts.”

— Sarah Dessen

Tell Robb that I'm going to command the Night's Watch and keep him safe, so he might as well take up needlework with the…

— Anonymous

Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks…

— Robertson Davies

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was…

— George Orwell