A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
Martha Beck

Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
George S. Patton

An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
William Cowper

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
Richard Savage

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.
Peter Allen

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward

Hey, Ryan, if Sting retires, will he change his name to Stung?
Colin Mochrie

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
Dinah Maria Mulock

I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.
Elton John

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide

I remember my mother finding mud somehow and putting it on the sting.
John Hawkes

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
Eddie Bernice Johnson

I'm not trying to say that it never hurt or that I never felt its sting, but I can honestly say that I never blamed anybody for racism. I have considered it more of a manifestation of humanity's problem rather than my personal problem.
Robert Guillaume

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
Grantland Rice

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.
Francis Quarles