Ambush Quote by John Dryden Download Open image “Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.” — John Dryden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambush Firsts Fool Gambling Lays Spiders Traps Wise
“Some flies and gnats were sitting on my paper and this disturbed me; I breathed on them to make them go, then blew harder… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided… — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland Copy Share Image
I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
“The most prolific and accomplished hunters were not the most bloodthirsty and indefatigable. They were the most cool and empathetic. They were the ones… — Kevin Dutton Copy Share Image
“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“A scarecrow was a thing of bold-faced tactics, out in the full light of day. A "murmet," the "r" softly rolling against the tongue… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A coward is the kindest animal; 'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Men's virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“You can easily discern whether someone is truly interested to learn & know when s/he asks you or cornering and ambushing you to stumble...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. It” — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. — Samuel Garth Copy Share Image
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. — Ovid Copy Share Image
She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
“He's prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There's a shiny streak down one side of his face. "I shouldn't have… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
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