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  • Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.

    Horse   Fear   May  
    Virgil (2004). “The Aeneid”, p.35, Collector's Library
  • I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience.

    Smell   America   Firsts  
    Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.103, Penguin UK
  • Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

    Funny   Mother   Horse  
    Letter on August 20, 1959. "Rebecca West: A Life". Book by Victoria Glendinning. Part 5, Chapter 8, p. 206, 1987.
  • People are coming into America like we have no idea who they are, where they are from, what their feelings about our country is, and Hillary Clinton wants 550 percent more. This is going to be the great Trojan horse of all time.

    Country   Horse   Ideas  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • The Trojans lost the war because they fell for a really dumb trick. hey, there's a gigantic wooden horse outside and all the Greeks have left. Let's bring it inside! Not a formula for long-term survival. Now if they had formed a task force to study the Trojan Horse and report back to a committee, everyone wouldn't have been massacred.. Who says middle management is useless?

  • I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.

    War   Seduction   Poor  
  • Expanding the Toronto Island Airport will undermine the downtown's economy and liveability and intensify pollution and smog from Oshawa to Oakville. I urge Torontonians to close down this dangerous Trojan horse and get on with planning constructive and delightful ways of using our magnificent lakeside assets.

  • Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

    Funny   Horse   Humor  
  • A mind is a terrible thing to waste was the slogan, but now it's 95 and it's don't forget the Trojan.

    Reality   Mind   Waste  
  • Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

    Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”
  • If you open that Pandora's Box you never know what Trojan 'orses will jump out.

    On the Council of Europe, in Sir Roderick Barclay 'Ernest Bevin and Foreign Office' (1975) ch. 3
  • Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

    Song   Horse   Past  
    Esquire Magazine, November 1, 2004.
  • Syrian refugees might be Isis, they may be the great Trojan horse of all time.

    Horse   Isis   May  
    Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
  • Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who these [immigrants] are, where they come from. I always say Trojan Horse.

    Horse   Ideas   Trojans  
    Source: time.com
  • [The establishment] will allow the great Trojan horse - and I don't want people looking back in a hundred years and 200 years and have that story be told about us because we were led by inept, incompetent and corrupt people like Barack Obama and like Hillary Clinton. We don't want to be part of that history.

    Horse   Years   People  
    Source: time.com
  • Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.

    Country   Horse   Men  
    Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”
  • Don't trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. -Equo ne credite, Teucri. Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

    Trust   Horse   Fear  
  • Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

    Horse   Sex   War  
    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

    Country   Horse   Spring  
    Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing
  • What if it lines up like it did in the Trojan War ... Athena versus Poseidon?" "I don't know. But I just know that I'll be fighting next to you." "Why?" "Because you're my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?

    War   Stupid   Fighting  
  • I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

    Family   Men   Mint  
  • I know better than to get in between three women arguing. If you’ll remember, the whole Trojan War started over that. (Wulf)

    War   Three   Arguing  
    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Kiss of the Night”, p.287, Macmillan
  • Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between them?" "Didn't they start the Trojan War and get thousands of people killed?" "Pfft. That's not the point. Follow your heart.

    True Love   War   Heart  
    Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”
  • [Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the present moment. It's the foundation of your vast civilization today in exactly the same way that it was the foundation of the very first farming village.

    War   Past   Civilization  
  • I would suppose I learned how to write when I was very young indeed. When I read a child's book about the Trojan War and decided that the Greeks were really a bunch of frauds with their tricky horses and the terrible things they did, stealing one another's wives, and so on, so at that very early age, I re-wrote the ending of the Iliad so that the Trojans won. And boy, Achilles and Ajax got what they wanted, believe me. And thereafter, at frequent intervals, I would write something. It was really quite extraordinary. Never of very high merit, but the daringness of it was.

    Horse   Children   War  
    "Storytelling Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. January 10, 1991.
  • In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.

    Fashion   Horse   People  
    Source: www.preaching.com
  • Most incredibly, because to me this is unbelievable, we have no idea who illegal migrants are, where they come from. I always say Trojan horse. Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.

    Horse   Ideas   Migrants  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain the history of the Trojan War is gone. The gods are abandoned. But their place is filled by powerful men or groups - sinister pressure groups whose wickedness is responsible for all the evils we suffer from - such as the Learned Elders of Zion, or the monopolists, or the capitalists, or the imperialists.

    "The Open Society and its Enemies: Hegel and Marx".
  • Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

    Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”
  • Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

    "The Education of David Stockman" by William Greider, www.theatlantic.com. December 1981.
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