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 Jruschov

  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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• El tiempo era bueno y moderado. Todos los cazadores regresaron, habiendo matado durante su ausencia tres alces, cuatro ciervos, dos puercoespines, un zorro y una liebre.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Tiempo, Dos, Zorros

  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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• Estamos escribiendo un libro juntos. Acaba de terminar uno. ¿Lo has leído? ¿Entre los puercoespines?

  Walter Matthau

  Libro, Escribir, Juntos

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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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• Si tienes suficiente empuje, no tienes que preocuparte del tirón.

  Zig Ziglar

  Attitude, Worry, Effort

  Facebook post byZig 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

  Fuente: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Los poderosos y prominentes se elevan como dragones, los heroicos y valientes luchan como tigres: pero si los miras con ojos fríos, son como hormigas que se reúnen en rancio encuentro, como moscas que pululan en la sangre. Los juicios sobre el bien y el mal se erizan como púas de puercoespín: pero si los enfrentas con sentimientos fríos, es como una fragua que funde el metal, como el agua caliente que disuelve la nieve.

  Zicheng Hong

  Potente, Ojo, Lucha

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• Le pregunté a Sunny si alguna vez consideraría salir contigo. Dijo que preferiría dar a luz a un puercoespín en llamas.

  Jerry Lawler

  Fire, Wwe, Giving

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• Impulsar la agenda de una empresa en las redes sociales es como lanzar globos de agua a un puercoespín.

  Erik Qualman

  Media, Water, Pushing

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• Para bien o para mal, la mayoría de la gente conoce los animales grandes o exóticos en los zoológicos. Pocos verán alguna vez pingüinos salvajes descendiendo en trineo hacia el mar sobre sus barrigas, pandas gigantes sosteniendo piruletas de bambú en China o puercoespines arborícolas en las Rocosas canadienses, hechos bolas como piñas gigantes.

  Diane Ackerman

  Zoológicos, Animales, Mar

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