Sting Quotes

Jim said bees wouldn’t sting idiots; but I didn’t believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn’t sting me.

– Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter 8. As well as showing Huck’s modesty, this quote is also full of irony. Huck is actually intelligent and can see through the hypocrisy and pretenses of society better than many.

Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their benefactors to death.

– Tecumseh

Speech to the Osages, winter 1811-1812.

The sting of losing is bad.

– John McEnroe

I’m not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

– Eddie Bernice Johnson

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
For sin is the sting that results in death, and the law gives sin its power.
But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

– The Bible

1 Corinthians 15:55-57

O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

– The Bible

1 Corinthians 15:55

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