Barbs Quote by David R. Mains

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

— Texas Bix Bender

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

— John Hawkes

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see…

— Barbara Mikulski

Greed, fear, lust, hate, jealousy, these are part of reality too ... bundles of consciousness wrapped tightly, barbs on which you can injure yourself,…

— Frederick Lenz

No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,”…

— John Irving

He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

— Adolf Hitler

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

— J. L. B. Smith

“She threw barbs, they were well aimed and they made me laugh. If I were a different man I’d have a bruised ego. I…

— Tarryn Fisher

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh,…

— Arthur Golden

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but…

— Olive Schreiner

We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure…

— D. H. Lawrence