Itch is more intolerable than smart. [ Proverb ]

He that handles thorns shall smart for it. [ Proverb ]

Your sayer of smart things has a bad heart. [ Pascal ]

A smart coat is a good letter of introduction. [ Dutch Proverb ]

That anxious torture may I never feel,
Which doubtful, watches over a wandering heart.
O, who that bitter torment can reveal.
Or tell the pining anguish of that smart! [ Byron ]

He that will not bear the itch must endure the smart. [ Proverb ]

Experience wounded is the school where man learns piercing wisdom out of smart. [ Lord Brooke ]

A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow. [ Lowell ]

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

Not a Red Indian, hunting by Lake Winnipeg, can quarrel with his squaw, but the whole world must smart for it. Will not the price of beaver rise? [ Carlyle ]

When a woman finds out that her husband is absolutely indifferent to her she either becomes dreadfully dowdy or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

I may grieve with the smart of an evil as soon as I feel it, but I will not smart with the grief of an evil as soon as I hear of it. My evil, when it Cometh, may make my grief too great; why, then, should my grief, before it comes, make my evil greater? [ Arthur Warwick ]

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain! [ Thackeray ]

If I live in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That was if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron! and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice. Then everyone would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]