kick quotes

Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said,Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 9:3^5.

I have a little black book with two players in it, and if Iget a chanceto dothem Iwill.Iwill makethemsuffer before I pack this game in. If I can kick them four years over the touch-line, I will.

-Jack (John) Charlton
  Remark to reporters, which led to severe trouble with the soccer authorities. Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

It's me Auntie Maggie's home-made remedy Guaranteed never to fail Now that's the stuff that will do the trick It's sold at ev'ry chemist for 'one and a kick'.

- George Formby
  'Auntie Maggie's Remedy' (with Eddie Latta), song featured in the film Turned Out Nice Again.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day likea football, and it will be round and full at evening.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.5.

   I get no kick from champagne; Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So tell me why should it be true That I get a kick out of you?

- Cole Porter
  'I Get a Kick Out ofYou', from the show Anything Goes.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
  The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

  That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out but they never let you down.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
  Decline and Fall, pt.1, ch.3.