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  • Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways. [Fr., Coups de fourches ni d'etriveres, Ne lui font changer de manieres.]

    Change   Blow   Fonts  
  • If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork.

    Mother   Doors   Balance  
  • Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

  • If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

    Nature   Way   Pitchforks  
    Horace (1903). “Horace for English Readers: Being a Translation of the Poems of Quintus Horatius Flaccus Into English Prose”
  • It was summertime and I was in The Azores, hanging around the small village my parents are from. I was looking out on this very rural setting, on a road going up a hill. There was an old man coming down the hill with a pitchfork on his shoulder. He was wearing gum boots, work pants - and a Coca-Cola T-shirt. I saw that and thought, That's my album!

    Men   Summertime   Parent  
  • Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

    Fire   Lakes   Air  
    Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
  • When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • What if you went to Hell, and it was exactly what you thought it would be: just a cave with fire? And the devil really was this idiot in a red leotard with a pitchfork?

    Fire   What If   Devil  
  • Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a few hints, but we might as well abandon our spades and pitchforks as pretend that nature is everything and art nothing.

    Art   Nature   Garden  
    James Shirley Hibberd (1871). “The amateur's flower garden”, p.223
  • If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork you into adventure or, by the same token, may not.

    Travel   Adventure   May  
  • Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the warty cauldron, so by the middle of the sixteenth century a different version of the tale was in wide circulation among wizarding families. In the revised story, the Hopping Pot protects an innocent wizard from his torch-bearing, pitchfork-toting neighbours by chasing them away from the wizard's cottage, catching them and swallowing them whole.

  • I believe in good and evil," said Jem. "And I believe the soul is eternal. But I don't believe in the fiery pit, the pitchforks, or endless torment. I do not believe you can threaten people into goodness." Tessa looked at will. "What about you? What do you believe? "Pulvis et umbra sumus," said Will, not looking at her as he spoke. "I believe we are dust and shadows. What else is there?

    Believe   Dust   People  
  • Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in my hand?” “No.” “Care to guess?” “A pitchfork?” she asked in a stilted attempt at levity, hoping to invoke his earlier, playful mood. “No, my dear,” he answered drily. “A key to your room.” “What?”she breathed, aghast. “I should hate to have to use it.” “You have a key to this room?” “Mm-hmm.” She took a step toward the door, panic rising up in her throat. “You’re bluffing!” “Do you wish me to prove it?

    Hate   Rising Up   Keys  
    Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.103, Ballantine Books
  • She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.

    'Polite Conversation' (1738) dialogue 1
  • Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

  • One can't save and then pitchfork souls into heaven... Souls are more or less securely fastened to bodies... And as you can't get the souls out and deal with them separately, you have to take them both together.

    Heaven   Soul   Together  
  • Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poison-- Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

    Work   Toads   Bills  
    'Toads' (1955)
  • Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

    Believe   White   Long  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

  • Donald Trump is using an age-old trick of right wing populism, much like George Wallace, much like Joe McCarthy, Pitchfork Ben Tillman who in the 1880s and `90s was a rabid hateful racists who whipped up hate and hysteria for his own political benefit.

    Hate   Wings   Hysteria  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.

    Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
  • Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

    Taken   Champion   Trying  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I think when I dropped The Eulogy is when it became more [about] feedback because that's when Pitchfork wanted to review it and things like that.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

    Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1925-1927”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr
  • It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

    Names   Evil   Doe  
    Song: Evil Is Alive And Well, Album: Seeing Things
  • I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

    Book   Angel   Wings  
    Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Christmas Box: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
  • You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

    'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 10, l. 24
  • Some devil with a pitchfork keep talkin' like he know me. I stood before an angel as he told me bout the glory.

    Angel   Devil   Glory  
  • [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

    Dog   Rain   School  
  • Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.

    Iron   Soul   Wire  
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