pitchfork quotes

   Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork.

-Brautigan, Richard
  Title of poetry collection.

Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the brute off? Six days of the week it soils With its sickening poisonö Just for paying a few bills! That's out of proportion.

-Larkin, Philip Arthur
  'Toads'.

   I think she was cut out for a Gentlewoman, but she was spoiled in the making. She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork; and, for the fashion, I believe they were made in the days of Queen Bess.

-Swift,Jonathan
  Polite Conversation, dialogue1.

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