Tails Quotes - Page 19

• We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Dog, Art, Horse

  'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)

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• Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.

  David H. Levy

  Cat, Want, Comets

  David H. Levy (2003). “David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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• This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Race, Years, House

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lady Londonderry, February 22, 1854.

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• I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.

  Carl Jung

  Morning, Optimistic, Men

  "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Book by Carl Jung, recorded and edited By Aniela Jaffe, translated by Richard and Clara Winston, p. 14, archive.org. 1963.

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• She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Faces, Paint

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.35, Nayika Publishing

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• Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

  Gunter Grass

  Coins, Melancholy, Utopia

  "From The Diary Of A Snail (On Stasis and Progress)". Book by Gunter Grass, 1972.

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• That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

  Austin O'Malley

  Church, Scandal, Causes

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• Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

  Muhammad Ali

  Cells, White, Jail

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• Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Dog, Games, Rabbits

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.32, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Firsts

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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• Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff.

  Fergus Henderson

  Common Sense, Stuff, Bloodlust

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• Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Dog, Eye, Sharks

  "The World According to Clarkson". Book by Jeremy Clarkson, 2004.

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• Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Straws

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1989). “Grandfather Stories”, p.145, Syracuse University Press

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• Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, "that," said he, "the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.

  Plutarch

  Dog, Cutting, Cost

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.211

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• Cats are too independent. They piss me off. They play when they want, and then they turn their back on you. Dogs, you throw the ball, and they bring it back, tongue hanging out, tail wagging. Cats are like "Not right now, too busy." Definitely a dog man. Except when it comes to cleaning up after them! Cats win that!

  Denzel Washington

  Dog, Cat, Independent

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• I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me in a few scenes here or there, but I've been working my tail off because there's just not a lot.

  Viola Davis

  Years, Three, May

  "Viola Davis Exclusive Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 9, 2011.

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• A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

  Karel Capek

  Mother, Dog, Humor

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• The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want. Until we do, we are hamsters in a cage chasing our own tails and wondering why we aren't getting the results we seek.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Self

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• If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

  William Shockley

  Ties, Fire, Energy

  "The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow" by Fred Warshofsky, (p. 21), 1989.

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• The bluebird is well named, for he wears a coat of the purest, richest, and most gorgeous blue on back, wings, and tail; no North American bird better deserves the name, for no other flashes before our admiring eyes so much brilliant blue.

  Arthur Cleveland Bent

  Eye, Blue, Names

  Arthur Cleveland Bent (1949). “Life histories of North American thrushes, kinglets, and their allies: order Passeriformes”

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• My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.

  Catherine Stock

  Giving, Goal, Perfection

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• Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in.

  Paula McLain

  Dog, Eye, Easy

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.

  William Poundstone

  Return, Sensitive, Fats

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.297, Macmillan

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• It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

  Jakob Dylan

  Names, Evil, Doe

  Song: Evil Is Alive And Well, Album: Seeing Things

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