Bite Quotes

688 quotes by 568 authors

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift
Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it. — Anne Bancroft
I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, 'I bite.' And I was like, 'That is… — Doug Benson
An artist should always bite the hand that feeds him - but not too hard. — Nam June Paik
My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
TZETZE (or TSETSE) FLY, n. An African insect ("Glossina morsitans") whose bite is commonly regarded as nature's most efficacious remedy for insomnia, though some patients… — Ambrose Bierce
The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the… — Swami Vivekananda
Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing. — Joe De Sena
Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. — Stephen King
Rueful, bittersweet, funny, written with tenderness and bite, Merrill Feitell's stories, like so many classic short stories, are made from the plain and painful stuff… — Michael Chabon
Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each… — Oscar Wilde
The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is… — Aldous Huxley
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. — James M. Barrie
When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite. — John Burroughs
Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite… — Pola Negri
Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought… — Peter Sellers
Barking dogs don't bite, but they themselves don't know it. — Sholom Aleichem
On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie.… — Lester Holt
Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not… — Harold Wilson
The hostility of this landscape teaches me how to be quiet and unobtrusive, how to find grace among spiders with a poisonous bite. I sat… — Terry Tempest Williams

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