Quotes by Tails The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters. Matthew Arnold letters tails science Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part. Mason Cooley kink aphorism tails ...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him! Mark Twain cat home tails The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction. Mark Twain credit church tails One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. Maxine Kumin poetry mouths tails A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them. Mark Twain cat excellence tails I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't. Mark Twain cat tails men If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash. Mark Twain paper tails civilization Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. Michael Bassey fake-friends dog tails I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience. Michael Bolton legs opposites tails The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia ago Miguel Syjuco tyrants humanity tails When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys. Mitt Romney blame donkey tails Heads I win, tails I don’t lose much. Mohnish Pabrai loses winning tails Rationalism crashes in the tails. Nassim Nicholas Taleb rationalism crash tails The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign. Nathalia Crane lines bees tails Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing. Nathan Myhrvold freeze tails lobster The Bengal tiger always has his tail up, ready to devour the opposition. Navjot Singh Sidhu bengal-tigers ready tails He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. Niels Henrik Abel track math tails Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth. Paolo Bacigalupi teeth hatred tails My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail. Paul Banks rocks hip-hop tails «1234567891011»