A Quote by William Shakespeare

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.

William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare
English - Playwright
April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

Edward Everett Hale

Get inside before I spank you in public." There it was again, another of his maddening threats. Did that mean he wouldn't spank her if she did as he said or that he simply planned to spank her in private? She was still mulling over the whole unpleasant concept when he started the truck.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body

Thomas Hobbes

And yet one carries the sins of his forebears as one carries their features in his face. One bears their blood, and their honor or their blight.

Guillermo del Toro

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Anne Bradstreet

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

'Licensed to Ill' was like a cold, and we took so much vitamin C that we'd never get that cold again.

Ad-Rock

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Pema Chodron

Being from Flint, especially in the basketball community, is a big deal. Basketball in Flint, you're pretty much like a god there if you play college basketball or are lucky enough to make it to the NBA.

Kyle Kuzma

As fire is not extinguished by fire, so anger is not conquered by anger, but is made even more inflamed. But meekness often subdues even the most beastly enemies, softens them and pacifies them.

Tikhon of Zadonsk

There's plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

Rachel Field

We have a situation where we have a lawmaker here in California who says that if you spank the child, you spank them, you're going to go to jail for a year or you're going to pay a $1,000 fine.

Sean Hannity

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

Ludwig van Beethoven

The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.