harness quotes

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

- Sir Kingsley Amis
  Take A Girl LikeYou, ch.5.

A certain man drewa bowat a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Kings 22:34.