Quotes of Forelock - somelinesforyou

“ Readers who like facts will be better off with a straight history that spares them all the forelock tugging and teacup tinkling. ”

- Rhoda Koenig

“ When fortune comes, seize her firmly by the forelock, for, I tell you, she is bald at the back. ”

- Leonardo da Vinci

“ ACEPHALOUS, adj. In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled at his forelock some hours after a Saracen scimitar had, unconsciously to him, passed through his neck, as related by de Joinville. ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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