Paws Quotes - Page 6

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

Sarah Monette

Stories, Monkeys, Youth

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O God, in the dream the terrible horse began
To paw at the air, and make for me with his blows.

Louise Bogan

Dream, Horse, Blow

Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

Neil Gaiman

Dream, Book, Wish

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On the grey rock of Cashel I suddenly saw
A Sphinx with woman breast and lion paw,
A Buddha, hand at rest,
Hand lifted up that blest;
And right between these two a girl at play
That, it may be, had danced her life away.

William Butler Yeats

Girl, Rocks, Hands

William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.446, Simon and Schuster

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Pleasure is wild and sweet. She likes purple flowers. She loves the sun and the wind and the night sky. She carries a silver bowl full of liquid moonlight. She has a cat named Midnight with stars on his paws. Many people mistrust Pleasure, and even more misunderstand her. For a long time I could barely stand to be in ...the same room with her.

J. Ruth Gendler

Sweet, Stars, Flower

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I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.

John Hodgman

Memories, Book, Past

"Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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A dog came to my door, so I gave him a bone, the dog took the bone into the back yard and buried it. I'm going to go plant a tree there, with bones on it, then the dog will come back and say, "Shoot! It worked! I must distribute these bones equally for I have a green paw!"

Mitch Hedberg

Funny, Dog, Humor

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I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

Kristen Schaal

Funny, Humor, Feet

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You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?"

Pam Brown

Cat, Caves, World

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As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

Scott Adams

Technology, Doctors, Stuff

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"Ever since the religion of Islam appeared in the world, the espousers of it...have been as wolves and tigers to all other nations, rending and tearing all that fell into their merciless paws, and grinding them with their iron teeth; that numberless cities are raised from the foundation, and only their name remaining; that many countries, which were once as the garden of God, are now a desolate wilderness; and that so many once numerous and powerful nations are vanished from the earth! Such was, and is at this day, the rage, the fury, the revenge, of these destroyers of human kind".

John Wesley

Country, Powerful, Revenge

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I didn't grow up on the porch of a cabin looking out over the 90 acres that the mule was plowing with Paw-Paw playing the banjo. But I was always interested in folk music.

Ketch Secor

Growing Up, Cabins, Plowing

Source: www.motherjones.com

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Are you a sheep? Do you want to get rid of your shepherd? I say forget it till you develop wild teeth and grow paw; and until then, enjoy the sound of flageolet!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Sheep, Want, Shepherds

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No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Kings, Keys, Sheep

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My cat, Ethel, is an indoor cat but somehow she's sneakin' out at night. 'Cause the other morning I found a stamp on her paw... I wouldn't have noticed myself, but I just bought this new black light and she passed right under it and I said, 'Hey, what's that on you paw?

Ellen DeGeneres

Morning, Cat, Night

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It [cats going outside the litter box] might have something to do with - you know, I am just thinking that if I am the cat, when I'm pooping, you know, I've got to strain a little bit more and maybe that affects how the kitty litter feels on my paws. I'd try a different sub straight, or something like that - make sure it's not slippery.

Temple Grandin

Cat, Thinking, Trying

"Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin" by Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Cat, Looks, Intense

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I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the field - limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I'm sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don't know what I've done to deserve that kind of friend.

Gene Hill

Friendship, Dog, Nice

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Trust me, Yorkies leave paw prints on your heart.

Cindy Adams

Heart, Paw Prints, Trust Me

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When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"

Willie Morris

Funny, Dog, Men

Willie Morris (2008). “My Dog Skip”, p.11, Vintage

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I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their tails complementarily adjusted, their blue eyes blinking open on a single thought of when I shall remember it's their supper time. They might have been composed by Bach for two flutes.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Cat, Eye, Nursing

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Take not into your ear that scum of hell that people call tittle-tattle. Whosoever willingly listens to a slander is equally guilty with the one who tells it, and an old writer says they ought both to be hanged; the one by the tongue and the other by the ear. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest like a pleased dog, he puts his dirty paw upon you.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

Dog, Dirty, People

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Rabbits are a foolish people. They do not fight except with their own kind, nor use their paws except for feet, and appear to have no reason for existence but to furnish meals for meat-eaters. In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.

Mary Hunter Austin

Spring, Fighting, Feet

Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.25, Rutgers University Press

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I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".

Bill Maher

Running, Stupid, Reading

"Bill Maher... But I'm Not Wrong". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

Anthony Trollope

Horse, Doe, Lame

Anthony Trollope (2016). “Hunting Sketches: Trollope's Works”, p.17, 谷月社

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