Indexed in the public record
“Fling but a stone, the giant dies.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Spleen. Line 93.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- e21ae82a6597418a5e59b24dddf9c1ddcecdf13ca5a83d7e46da269a0d5b16ea
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Continual dropping wears away a stone.”
Lucretius
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.”
Edward Young
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.”
Schiller
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The saint sustain'd it, but the woman died.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hew down and fell the hardest-timbered oak.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods.”
Euripides
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.