Porcupines Quotes

• I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines.

  Fred Allen

  Easter, Kids, Home

  Fred Allen (1956). “Much Ado About Me”

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• Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Love, May, Handle

  "A Poet's Proverbs: Being Mirthful, Sober, and Fanciful Epigrams on the Universe, with Certain Old Irish Proverbs, All in Rhymed Complets".

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• If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Couple, Hedgehogs, Cold War

  In New York Times 7 Nov. 1963

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• You can fight a porcupine and win, but if other folks get a look at you they may think it's a bad idea to mess with porcupines.

  Neal Knox

  Fighting, Winning, Thinking

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• A witty writer is like a porcupine; his quill makes no distinction between friend and foe.

  Josh Billings

  Witty, Quills, Distinction

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• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Weather, Two, Foxes

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  Walter Matthau

  Book, Writing, Together

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• Rose goblins are built like porcupines - if you rub them the right way, you don't have to worry about the spines. They're sort of like people in that regard, too.​

  Mira Grant

  People, Worry, Rose

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• If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Worry, Effort

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Mar 22, 2013

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• Follow that porcupine!

  Gail Carriger

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

  Helen Fisher

  Animal, Rhinos, Quills

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• Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Comforting, Condom, Danger

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Sins of the Night: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.83, Macmillan

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• The nut of this tree is hung high aloft, wrapped in a silk wrapper, which is enclosed in a case of sole leather, which again is packed in a mass of shock absorbing, vermin proof pulp, sealed up in a waterproof, ironwood case, and finally cased in a vegetable porcupine of spines, almost impregnable. There is no nut so protected; there is no nut in our woods to compare with it as food. What is a Chesnut?

  Luis de Camoes

  Vegetables, Nuts, Tree

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• If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

  Richard Jeni

  Careers, Shoes, Giving

  "Platypus Man". Comedy TV Series, 1995.

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• I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

  Kelly Ripa

  New York, Children, Book

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool eyes, they are like ants gathering on rancid meet, like flies swarming on blood. Judgments of right and wrong bristle like porcupine quills: but if you meet them with cool feelings, that is like a forge melting metal, like hot water dissolving snow.

  Zicheng Hong

  Powerful, Eye, Fighting

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• I asked Sunny if she would ever consider dating you. She said she would rather give birth to a porcupine on fire.

  Jerry Lawler

  Fire, Wwe, Giving

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• Pushing a company agenda on social media is like throwing water balloons at a porcupine.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Water, Pushing

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• For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

  Diane Ackerman

  Zoos, Animal, Sea

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