Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
You know you're getting fat when you step on the dog's tail and he dies. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The Americans are stuck in Iraq and have no way out. They are like a wolf whose tail has been caught in… — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
The qualities all in a bee that we meet, In an epigram never should fail; The body should always be little and… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and… — John Henry Carver Copy Share Image
The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It's impossible to have a coin with only one side. You can't have heads without tails. Innovation is like that. Initiative is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Willy Loman about it. But, "Airline food is crazy. Hey, what's with these rent-a-cars?" or you go… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing,… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
She is Melusina, the water goddess, and she is found in hidden springs and waterfalls in any forest in Christendom, even in… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Without the heroic, man has no meaning; without the economic, he has no sense. Economic man is most likely to be economic… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
How come it can’t fly no better than a chicken?’ Milkman asked. Too much tail. All that jewelry weighs it down. Like… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I can't deny that I was an intellectual prostitute along the way many, many times in college. I can remember one examination… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
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