pin quotes

There was a faith-healer of Deal Who said,'Although pain isn't real, If I sit on a pin 22 And it punctures my skin, I dislike what I fancy I feel.'

-Anonymous
Collected in The Week-End Book (1925).

But had I wist, before I kiss'd, That love had been sae ill to win. I'd lock'd my heart in a case o'gowd, And pinn'd it wi'a siller pin.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', stanza 4.

You must take off your clothes for the doctor And stand as straight as a pin, His hand of stone on your white breastbone Where the bullets all go in.

- Charles Causley
  'Recruiting Drive'.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

-James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
  Ulysses.