Neck Quotes

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. (Frederick Douglass)
Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping. View quote
John Steinbeck
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, "Make me feel important." Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck. View quote
William Shakespeare
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. View quote
Emma Goldman
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. View quote
William Cobbett
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
After all, it is not where one washes one's neck that counts but where one moistens one's throat. View quote
Djuna Barnes
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. View quote
Rita Rudner
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head. (Stephen R. Donaldson)
When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken some neck. View quote
Winston Churchill
Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more. View quote
Alice Hoffman
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it. View quote
Austin O'Malley
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. View quote
James Bryant Conant
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck. View quote
Eli Wallach
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school. View quote
Alvin Lee
Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up. View quote
Knute Rockne
I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability. View quote
Robin Trower
ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked. View quote
Dakota Fanning
A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright. (Robert A. Heinlein)
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence. View quote
Clement Attlee
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out. View quote
Louis V. Gerstner
Would that the Roman people had but one neck! View quote
Caligula
You break your neck, and I'll see it mended just so I can break it again. View quote
Robert Jordan
📖 Neck Proverbs