Porcupines Quotes:

The porcupine, which one must handle gloved, may be respected, but is never loved.

- Arthur Guiterman

topic: Love, May, Porcupines

Follow that porcupine!

- Gail Carriger

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

topic: Porcupines

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

- Arthur Guiterman

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

topic: Love, May, Porcupines

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

- Josh Billings

topic: Witty, Porcupines, Quills

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

topic: Easter, Home, Kids, Kids Easter, Chocolate Eggs

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

- Nikita Khrushchev

topic: Couple, Hedgehogs, Cold War, Porcupines

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

topic: Fighting, Winning, Thinking, Porcupines

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

source: 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

topic: Weather, Two, Three, Elk, Porcupines

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

- Walter Matthau

topic: Book, Writing, Together, Porcupines

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

topic: People, Worry, Rose, Porcupines

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

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Worry, Effort, Enough, Porcupines, Peeves

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

- Helen Fisher

topic: Animal, Rhinos, Horns, Dangerous Animals, Quills

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

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

topic: Comforting, Condom, Danger, Porcupines

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

topic: Vegetables, Nuts, Tree, Porcupines, Absorbing

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

source: "Platypus Man". Comedy TV Series, 1995.

topic: Careers, Shoes, Giving, Porcupines, Selling Shoes

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

source: Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

topic: Porcupines

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

topic: Powerful, Eye, Fighting, Dissolving, Porcupines

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

- Jerry Lawler

topic: Fire, Wwe, Giving, Porcupines

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

- Erik Qualman

topic: Media, Water, Agendas, Porcupines

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

topic: Zoos, Animal, Sea, Pandas, Lollipop