The kick of the dam hurts not the colt. [ Proverb ]

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But why did you kick me down stairs? [ J. P. Kemble ]

Touch a galled horse on the back, and he will kick. [ Proverb ]

To condemn a just commendation, is to kick at a kindness. [ Proverb ]

When a man is going downhill, everybody gives him a kick. [ Proverb ]

It is in vain to kick, after you have once put on fetters. [ Proverb ]

A well-bred dog goes out when he sees them preparing to kick him out. [ Scotch Proverb ]

If an ass kick you, will you kick him again, or put him into the court? [ Proverb ]

The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. [ From the Italian ]

Kick a barking dog and he will bark the more. Never notice him, and he will shut up.

If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam. [ Lord Langdale ]

Never hunt trouble. However dead a shot one may be, the gun he carries on such expeditions is sure to kick, or go off half-cocked. [ Artemus Ward ]

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. That nation cannot be free, where reform is a common hack, that is dismissed with a kick the moment it has brought its rider to his place. [ Colton ]

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while Error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger? [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]