Famous quotes containing the word bitten:
“Once bitten by a snake, one shies at well ropes for the next three years.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Who will pity a charmer that is bitten with a serpent?”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 12:13.
“From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had bitten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)